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TOBACCO, Continued 
Bonanza. A broad-leaf bright tobacco, yields well, cures easily to a 
good color and texture. Best known as a flue-cured sort. 
Jamaica Wrapper. A long broad-leaf bright tobacco. Medium heavy 
stalk, with leaves growing well apart. When grown on sandy soil 
and flue-cured it produces a good textured bright yellow leaf. 
Used for cigarettes and for cigar and plug wrappers. 
Obourg. Although widely planted in Western Europe, this type is 
more hardy than most, does well in the Northern States and Can- 
ada. A small to medium plant, it produces a dark, thick leaf when 
cured, rather pungent. 
Parfum d’‘Italie. Although much larger in stalk and leaf than Turkish 
tobacco, it resembles that variety in many ways. The leaves are 
bright green, medium narrow, curing to a deep lemon yellow. Very 
sweet and aromatic. 
Turkish. Fine aromatic type used largely for blending with bright 
leaf for cigarettes. Dwarf plant, with small oval leaves spaced 
closely on the stalk. When cured, leaves range in color from deep 
orange to light mahogany. Needs long days of strong sunlight to 
develop natural pungency. A light yielder compared with Ameri- 
can varieties. 
TOMATO 
(Lycopersicon esculentum) (Annual) 
Days to 
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from Plants 
Beefsteak. (See Ponderosa.) 
Bonny Best. Color bright scarlet, medium large flattened globe, weight 
4¥2 to 5% ounces. Smooth and solid, prolific, good shipper and 
canner. Can be forced. Medium strong plant. Medium early. 
Break O’Day. Color light scarlet, large globe-shaped fruits, 54% to 
642 ounces. A U.S.D.A. introduction. Wilt-resistant, productive 
and hardy. Foliage rather light green, open. An early variety. 
California Pole Early. Fruit a fine deep red, large, smooth and globu- 
lar; flesh is very solid and meaty and of a pleasant flavor. Plant 
is tall growing and rather open in habit; particularly suitable to 
California coastal climate or elsewhere when plenty of light and 
sun can be afforded to mature and ripen the fruit. Used for spring 
planting in California, a good market variety, gives a large percent- 
age of 5/5 size. 
California Pole Late. Fruit color deep bright red, very large, 6% to 
74% ounces in weight, regularly globular and smooth. Very pro- 
ductive, useful for market and for canning and juice. Used as a 
fall variety in California, where it is a wonderful yielder of very 
attractive fruits. 
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