ious times from North America and Cuba.

The cultivation is most carefully watched, and the statistics
available concerning it are of the minutest kind. Not only is the area
of each field of tobacco accurately measured, but each plant is noted
down, and even each leaf on each plant is accounted for. St. Omer is
used chiefly for snuff, sometimes used with other kinds and is much
esteemed by the French who consider it among the best of tobaccos.

HUNGARIAN TOBACCO.

This variety is attracting considerable attention, from the fact that
it is well adapted for the manufacture of cigars. Like Connecticut
seed leaf, the leaves are large and well suited for cigar wrappers. A
considerable portion is adapted for other uses, and it is in some
respects a good cutting tobacco. When in fine condition, Hungarian
leaf burns freely and leaves a clean, light-colored ash. No variety of
tobacco grown in Europe is attracting more notice than this, and if
good leaf tobacco suitable for cigars can be grown, American tobacco
will diminish in proportion. Hungarian tobacco is a favorite with the
Italians, and large quantities are sold to the Italian monopoly to be
used both for cigars and cutting.

SPANISH TOBACCO.

[Illustration: Spanish tobacco.]

For several years the growers of tobacco in the Connecticut valley
have directed their attention towards the production of a tobacco
possessing all of the excellencies of both wrapper and filler; in
other words, if possible securing a leaf of light color and fine
texture and good flavor, so as to combine all of the desirable
features and qualities of tobacco in one variety. Some few years since
the Department of Agriculture at Washington distributed a variety of
tobacco seed among the Connecticut tobacco growers known by the name
of Spanish tobacco.

It has been tested by many of the largest tobacco growers in
Connecticut, and found to be one of the best varieties of the plant
ever cultivated in the valley. The plant grows to the height of eight
feet, bearing leaves about two feet in length by one foot in width, is
an erect, strong, growing tobacco with a small, hard stalk and stout,
long roots. The plant, when growing, imparts a strong aromatic odor
not unlike Havana tobacco, but is larger everyway, and of inferior
flavor for cigars. By repeated trials its superiority has been
demonstrated to a certainty, while the profit arising from its culture
proves it worthy of attention from all c