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EXPERIMENTS WITH TOBACCO. 
Eighteen varieties were grown the past season, all of 
which ripened thoroughly before the end of August. 
The first to ripen was the White Burley; the Improved 
Havanna and Vuelta Abajo, or low-land tobacco, next; 
then General Grant, a form of Big Orinoco, and Mis¬ 
souri Broad Leaf. The remaining varieties ripened 
about together. 
The varieties grown may be distinguished into those 
with upright or horizontal leaves, as the Orinocos, and 
such as have drooping leaves, as do the various forms of 
Havanna tobaccos. 
DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES GROWN. 
Isabella —This variety was imported from the 
Province Cay ay an, in Luzon, one of the Phillipine 
Islands, in 1886. It is said to possess a delicate flavor, 
and is used exclusively in manufacturing cigars. 
Caboni —This variety is grown in Virginia and in 
Cuba, where it attains a height of fourteen feet. It has 
a broad, ovate, thick leaf, developed from nodes very 
wide apart, and for this reason is not so well suited to 
this altitude as varieties that produce their leaves closer 
to the ground. 
General Grant —This variety is said to be the earli¬ 
est variety in cultivation, but did not prove so here this 
season. It produces immense leaves of fine texture, 
small veined, and verv^elastic. 
Cieiifuegos —This variety of cigar tobacco has been 
cultivated in Virginia since 1883, from seed imported 
from the Fiji Islands. It is early, of medium size, and 
of fine flavor. 
Flanagan —Originated in Henry County, Virginia; 
is much used for making sweet fillers and mahogany- 
colored wrappers. It is a variety of the old sweet 
Orinoco, having broader leaves, a finer flavor, and of 
more vigorous habit. 
White-Stem Orinoco —This is one of the best vellow 
varieties cultivated in the tobacco belt of Virginia and 
