Chapter 10

TOBACCO PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS.

The Connecticut Planter -- Intelligence of Tobacco Growers -- Best Connecticut Seed Leaf -- Love for the Plant -- Virginia Planters -- A Virginia Plantation -- The Plant-Patch -- Planting, Topping and Priming -- Suckering -- Crop-Gathering -- Curing and Sorting -- Tobacco Markets -- Ohio Tobacco -- Mode of Cure -- Kentucky Tobacco-Growing -- The Kentucky Planter -- Florida Tobacco -- Florida Plantation -- Tobacco in Louisiana -- California Tobacco Lands -- Mexican Tobacco -- Plants around Vera Cruz -- Tobacco in St Domingo -- Cuba Plantations -- Mode of Working -- Soil and Climate -- Tobacco-Growing in Germany -- Method of Culture -- Extent of Culture -- Tobacco-Raising in Prussia -- Tobacco in Holland -- Dutch Planters -- A Plea for Tobacco -- Tobacco Culture in Australia -- Arabian Plantations -- Tobacco in Africa -- Syrian Tobacco -- Latakia Tobacco -- Growing Tobacco in India -- Curing Tobacco in India -- Turks Cultivating Tobacco -- Japanese Tobacco -- Persian Tobacco -- Tobacco Culture, Philippine Islands -- Climate of the Islands -- Fragrant Manillas -- Tropical Tobacco............................................. 311