Cuban Seed. This has the usual qualities of Cuban tobacco but with inferior fragrance and aroma to the native grown. Principally raised in Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Florida for the cigar trade.
Perique. A special variety of tobacco grown only in a small area of Louisiana. The leaf is medium in size, has a fine fiber with small stems. Tough, gummy and glossy. It is grown in a deep, rich soil and grows very rapidly. Its special characteristics are acquired in the curing, which is a special process peculiar to itself, and which will be described in the chapter on Manufactured Tobaccos.
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Yearbooks of the United States Department of Agriculture. 1914 and previous.
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Jacobstein, M. The Tobacco Industry in the United States. New York, 1907.
Billings, E. R. Tobacco; its history, varieties, culture, manufacture and commerce. Hartford Conn., 1875.