Cigar Wrapper Varieties:
Connecticut Valley Shade-Grown Cigar-Wrapper Tobacco Type 61.
Georgia and Florida Shade-Grown Cigar-Wrapper Tobacco Type 62.
"Seed Leaf" varieties are light and delicate.  "Broadleaf" varieties are large and somewhat heavier.  "Sumatra" varieties are large and heavy.
Grown under shade canopies and air-cured for cigar wrappers.
Leaves are harvested by priming.  Priming entails the picking of individual leaves as they ripen.  Leaves are strung and air-dried in a barn or 'drying shed'.

         
2238 0-40 AST C-918  
 
         
CT 15 CT 49 CT 49 Barwell    
   
         
CT C-2 CCC-L CT Shade Dixie Shade  
 
         
Dominican Republic Cigar Florida 17 Florida 2612 Florida Sumatra GC-2
         
GEN 911 John Williams
CT Broadleaf
Kupchonos
CT Broadleaf
M-1 Magnolia
         
Metacomet Moonlight M-2 Poquonock Scantic
         

Type 61. That type of shade-grown tobacco known as Connecticut Valley Shade-grown, produced principally in the Connecticut Valley section of Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Type 62. That type of shade-grown tobacco known as Georgia and Florida Shade-grown, produced principally in southwestern Georgia and in the central part of northern Florida.

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