The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1891-07-04
Horticultural and Horticultural
DEPARTMENT.
W. H. LAWRENCE, Editor.
Lake View Farm, 6 Miles North Tallahassee


We have pride in the tobacco
growing industry, and, as we got
behind in tobacco matters during the
sitting of the legislature, devote all
of our department. this week to that
great and growing industry. :
Never lay a plant or leaf, after it
has been cut, on the sand.
Plants set June 5th TO the goth
ought to be ready to harvest by Au'
gust 18th to the Goth.
1t is reported that the tobacco
dealers of Gadsden county are send
ing experts over the county to teach
the growers. AS we are going to
school to Gadsden county in the to-
bacco business, would it not he a
good idea for our people to have a
few experts instead of building a big
tobacco warehouse in Tallahassee?
1t would be best to get the bird be-
fore securing the cage.
Don't strive to get heavy crop
one pound Of fine goods is worth
more than two Of a coarse grade.
The latter is fit only for filters or
binders.
Now manufacturers are paying
from so cents to 81 a pound for
first-class wrappers, why not strive
to grow all you can of this class?
Shaw & johnson have the con-
tract to build two-story cigar fac
tory for Clayton j. Yates at Plant
City. 1t will be 524x7O feet, with
three store rooms below and the
cigar factory above. 1t will cost
about $4,000, being brick veneered,
the first brick building in Plant
City.
Try TO leave from Is to 20 leaves
to each stalk.
Yellow spots on the leaves are an
Indication of ripening.
Generally speaking, the tobacco
will do to cut after the suckers have
appeared the second time.
Thick woods, hammocks and corn
fields are bud-worm breeders.
It is frost in the fall the northern
growers hate; here it seems spring
frost is what did the damage to the
growing beds, not the plant.
Do your best to grow a fine silky
crop of leaf.
Force An early growth.
The closer your plants are to-
gether the smaller they will be, but
the leaf, in our judgment, will be of
a finer texture.
When a badly eaten plant is found
cut it off near the ground and new
sucker will start and make almost as
good a plant, if the weather and til
lage is favorable and good.
The other day we directed hand
under employ to put fires in the to.
bacco fields, he did 80, but the sun
was two hours high. He is day
time fly, miller and bud-worm
catcher.
The reason why Gadsden county
grows so much tobacco is because
they have years Of experience. 1t
is not due to any peculiar or supe-
rior condition of their soil. There is
not one county on either side of
them but what can and has grown
just as good tobacco as they ever
had.
A hole in leaf of tobacco spoils
it for a wrapper and reduces it halt
in value.
The time to top is when the but.
ton shows itself above the upper
leaves and shows signs of blossom
ing.
In topping try to leave from IL tc
IA leaves; below some leave II
leaves.
The first company to commence
operations at Plant City is the
Elgenio Cigar Manufacturing com
pany, of which Barran Plat il
president, G. j. Yates vice-presiden
and l.. Ingraham manager. Thu
citizens Of the town subscribed $75(
to assist the company in purchasing
land and erecting a brick factory
The company agrees to employ no
less than fifty cigar makers.
Middle Florida is the natural hom
for Cuba tobacco.
Keep the grass and weeds ava
from every plant.
When the flower bud appear
break it off without bruising or teal
ing the leaves near at hand.
When a sucker is three inches Ion
it is about the right time to brea
it of. Keep breaking them as Ion
as they appear.
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