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MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES.
Green Tulmcco.
preceding species, they are much small-
er, deeper colored, more glossy, thicker,
and more succulent. When fully, grown,
the plant is of a pyramidal form, and
about three feet in height. The flow-
ers are numerous, greenish-yellow, tu-
bular, and nearly entire on the borders ;
the seed-vessels are ovoid, more de-
pressed at the top than those of the
Connecticut Seed-leaf, and much more
prolific ; seeds small, brownish.
The Green Tobacco is early, and
remarkably hardy, but not generally
considered worthy of cultivation in lo-
calities where the Connecticut Seed-
leaf can be successfully grown. It is
well adapted to the northern parts of New England and the
Canadas ; where it will almost invariably yield an abundance
of foliage, and perfect its seeds.
" It is very generally cultivated, almost to the exclusion of
the other species, in the north of Germany, Russia, and Swe-
den, where almost every cottager grows his own Tobacco for
smoking. It also seems to be the principal sort grown in
Ireland."
There are several varieties, among which may be mentioned
the Oronoco and the Negro-head, both of which have the
hardiness and productiveness common to the species, but are
not considered remarkably well flavored.
The plants should be started in spring, and transplanted as
directed for the Connecticut Seed-leaf; but, on account of its
smaller size and habit, two feet, or even twenty inches, between