Archive image from page 712 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 TOBACCO TOBACCO 643 tends to promote the development of a large leaf at the expense of fineness of texture and quality. When grown from freshly imported seed in south- ern tobacco districts, the tobacco seems to retain the valuable qualities of flavor, aroma, smooth taste, and other characters of the imported Cuban tobacco. Whether these qualities can be retained by continued selectio
Archive image from page 712 of Cyclopedia of farm crops . Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada cyclopediaoffarm00bailuoft Year: 1922, c1907 TOBACCO TOBACCO 643 tends to promote the development of a large leaf at the expense of fineness of texture and quality. When grown from freshly imported seed in south- ern tobacco districts, the tobacco seems to retain the valuable qualities of flavor, aroma, smooth taste, and other characters of the imported Cuban tobacco. Whether these qualities can be retained by continued selection of seed from desirable plants is a subject for experimentation, but the evidence secured up to this time indicates that it is probable that in certain districts in the United States uni- form crops of Cuban tobacco having a highly desir- able flavor and aroma can be produced by the aid of systematic seed selection. In the Connecticut valley this variety is grown under shade for cigar wrappers, the top leaves be- ing used to a limited extent for cigar fillers, and it is grown for cigar fillers in Florida, Texas, Ohio and Georgia. In Florida and Texas it produces one of the best grades of domestic fillers. Zimmer Spanish.—This is largely used for cigar fillers, and is the most popular and extensively grown domestic filler. It is frequently used for blending with other tobaccos in cigar fillers. It is commonly thought to be a hybrid of the native Seedleaf and the Cuban variety. It is adapted to a light loam soil, and in the Miami valley, Ohio, where it is most extensively grown, the surface soil is underlaid by a red-brown clay loam. The leaves are medium in size, have good body and elasticity, with small veins, and resemble the Cuban variety. They are set close together on the Fig. 869. Havana seed plant. stalk, fourteen to twenty leaves to the plant. The plants reach an average height of about four feet. This variety produces an average yield of about six hundred pounds t
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