made experiments with reproduced seed, and I have
arrived at the conclusion above stated. I have obtained, annually, a
cigar maker from Baltimore, who has made for me on my farm, and from
Spanish tobacco. These produced about the average of 70,000 cigars,
per year; they have been sold in Baltimore and Philadelphia for five
dollars the half box, that is ten dollars the thousand. The tobacco
has been uniformly admired, but in former years they have been very
badly made; for the last two years, (writing in 1843,) my crops were
destroyed by the unfavorable weather. This growth and manufacture do
not interfere with my cultivation of other crops; in fact they are
wholly unconnected with the other operations of the farmer." He
mentions having obtained a premium from an agricultural society, for
having produced on one and a half acres, growth and manufacture
included, of Spanish tobacco 504 dollars net profit.

The following letter from Mr. Clarke, to the Hon. H. L. Ellsworth,
Washington, speaks favorably of a new variety of tobacco:--

Willow Grove, Orange County, Virginia,

Feb. 13, 1844.

Dear Sir,--Agreeably to my promise I enclose you the Californian
tobacco seed. It grew from the small parcel given to me by Mr. Wm.
Smith, in your office in March last. On getting home, although late,
I prepared a bed, and sowed the small parcel, the first week in
April, and not having seed enough to finish the bed, sowed the
balance of the bed in Oronoko tobacco seed, and to my astonishment
the Californian plants were soon ready to set out, as soon as the
other kinds of tobacco sown in the month of January; and the Oronoko
seed, that was sown with the Californian, did not arrive to
sufficient size until it was too late to set out. The Californian
tobacco, if it continues to ripen and grow for the time to come, as
it did for me on the first trial, must come into general use--first,
because the plants are much earlier in the spring (say ten days at
least), than any kind we have; secondly, when transplanted, the
growth is remarkably quick, matures and ripens at least from ten to
fifteen days earlier than any kind of tobacco we have in use amongst
us. It is a large broad, silky leaf, of fine texture, and of a
beautiful color, and some plants grow as large as seven feet across,
from point to point; upon the