THE CULTURE OF TOBACCO. 23 



Stock-Stem. — Large, long leaf ; heavy -weigher ; no ruffles ; used 

 for heavy dark fillers ; shipping leaf ; grown in Tennessee. 



Sumatra. — Imported fi'om the Island of Sumatia. (_Trown in 

 Florida and Connecticut; leaf thin, of tine texture, veins small ; 

 popular as cigar wrappers. Plant will grow seven or eight feet high 

 under favourable conditirais. 



Thickset. — Leaf long, pointed, narrrjw ; coarse liljre ; very short 

 stalk ; coarse and heavy ; used for common plug work and shipping ; 

 grown in Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, AVest Virginia, Tennessee 

 and Eastern IJhio. 



Twist-Bud. — Heavy, large leaf ; scre«-shaped teiminal stem ; 

 export mainly, also for plug filleis ; grown in Kentucky, Missouri, 

 and Maryland. 



Yallandigiiam. — Large, pointed, smooth leaf ; used foi' cigar 

 wrappers and fillers, smokers ; grown in Wisconsin. 



VuELTA Aba.10. — The highest quality (jf cigar filler in the world ; 

 home is in the valleys of the western end of Cuba ; small plants ; 

 grown in some portions of the United States, but loses its fine 

 qualities after a few years. 



Warne. — Very pojoular new vaiiety, for the production of yellow 

 tobacco. 



AVhite Stem. — Leaf long, slender, drooping ; tough and fibrous ; 

 largest leaf grown ; used for plug wrappers, strips, and shipping leaf ; 

 grown in Virginia. 



Williams. — Same as " Beat- All " ; grown in Tennessee for 

 twenty-five years as " Williams '' ; British and German export ; grown 

 in Tennessee. 



WiLso>''s Hybrid. — Said to Ije an improved Havana ; eiect habit ; 

 easy of culti\'ation ; used for cigar wrappers, binders, and tillers ; 

 grown in New York. 



Yellow Mammoth. — Very large leaf ; rapid giower ; yields 

 largely; stemmed for export for Swiss wrappers; grown in 

 Tennessee. 



Zimmee'.s Spanish. — L'niform dark colour ; medium size leaf ; high 

 flavour ; highly prized for cigar fillei's ; grown in Ohio. 



It is impossible to state which of these varieties would Ije the 

 best foi' another country, that being a matter that can be settled 

 only Viy experiments. But if the soil and moisture conditions be 

 known, it is easy to select a list in which the variety best adapted to 

 the new conditions may be found. In the following list the very 

 best varieties grown in America are grouped with reference to their 

 uses and to the soils for which they are best adapted. 



For the production of yellow and mahogany cutters, plug 

 wrappers and fillers, by the method of flue-curing, and for growth on 

 sandy soils — Conqueror, Warne, White Stem Orinoco, Yellow 

 Orinoco, Long Leaf Gooch, Hester, Yellow Pryor, Eastern Pride, 

 Bonanza, Gold Finder, Hyco, Granville. County Yellow. 



For rich limestone soils and the production of pipe, cigarette, and 

 chewing tobacco — White Burley. 



For heavier soils and the production of sweet chewing tobacco — 

 Sweet Orinoco and Flannagan. All the bright tobaccos in the first 

 list will also produce a certain amount of chewing tobacco, and particu- 

 larly plug wi-appers. 



For heavy, rich soils, and the production (A a red, leddish-brown 

 Lir dark tobacco for smoking and chewing, and particulaily intended 



