6 PROFITABLE FARMING. 



For yellow wrappers and fillers: Sterling, Primus, Granville Yellow, White- 

 stem Oronoko, Tuckahoe, Hester, Long Leaf Gooch, Yellow Oronoko and Yellow 

 Pryor, 



Trial will determine what variety is best for any locality, as no one variety is 

 best for all locations. To plant varieties unsuited to the type, or on soils 

 unadapted thereto, is to invite failure every time. 



The leading cigar varieties are: Connecticut and Pennsylvania Seed Leaf, 

 Imported and American Grown Havana,and several Spanish Strains. 



In localities liable to early frost it is safest to plant the earliest varieties of 

 the several types, such as Sterling, Primus, Granville Yellow, Hyco, Hester, 

 Sweet Oronoko and Bradley for the manufacturing types, and Havana, Big 

 Havana, and Persian Rose for cigars. 



White Burley, when grown on rich limestone soil, makes a mild type of 

 tobacco in great favor, but this type cannot be successfully produced on silicious 

 soils, such as are best adapted to all other leaf tj^pes ; and for this reason, it has 

 invariably proved a failure in the old leaf producing States east. Southern Ohio 

 and eastern Kentucky produce the best grade of this type. 



Swept Oronoko — the Eastern Burley — makes mild, sweet substantial chewing 

 and smoking goods, unexcelled by Burley or any other type, when properly 

 grown on silicious soils. 



Hyco and Lacks cure readily and more certainly of colors desired in types 

 for which they are recommended. 



Hester and Long Leaf Gooch possess greater adaptability to soils than any 

 others, and therefore succeed where others fail. 



Sterling, Yellow Oronoko and Yellow Pryor are unexcelled for producing the 

 finest Lemon Yellow goods, while Long Leaf Gooch, Tuckahoe and Hester Taake 

 the finest Orange Yellow. 



Bradley makes fine manufacturing and good cigars. 



Big Havana is the best Americanized Havana, and Persian Rose, the earliest 

 cigar leaf, is one of the most promising foreign varieties. 



HYBRIDIZING. 



New and superior varieties are being constantly originated through hybridi- 

 zation, and that planters may be enabled to develop and test them, the following 

 instructions are given to aid them in efforts in this line: 



The bloom of the tobacco plant (see Fig. No. 2) has a monopetalous in 

 fine dibula-formed corolla, i. e., the petals are joined as one in a funnel-formed 

 corolla; within which are fine stamens (the male organs of the flower) adhering 

 thereto and surrounding the pistil (the female organ), which termipates in the 

 ovary below the nascent capsule, where the seeds are formed. The end of the 

 stamens are capped with anthers which secrete the pollen or fecundating dust, 

 which is taken up by the stigma, the vascular upper end of the pistil, and thus 

 fecundation is effected. 



THE MODUS OPERANDI OP HYBRIDIZING OR CROSS-PERTILIZING VARIETIES. 



If the pistils of the Oronoko variety are fecundated w'th pollen from stamens 

 of the Pryor, the cross is a hybrid-Pryor on Oronoko, and vice versa when the 

 pistils of the Pryor are fecundated with pollen from the Oronoko, the hybrid is 

 an Oronoko on Pryor. 



