Maryland Varieties:
"Light air-cured"
Maryland Broadleaf Tobacco Type 32.
Pennsylvania Seedleaf and Broadleaf Tobacco Type 41.
Grown and air-cured for cigarettes, pipe and chewing tobacco.
Plants are stalk-cut, left to wilt in the field, and barn dried.
Air-Curing is performed in widely ventilated barns under natural atmospheric conditions with little or no artificial heat; it takes about 3-12 weeks.  Light air-cured tobacco is very thin to medium in body, light tan shaded toward reddish brown in color and mild in flavor.

         
MD 10 MD 14 D2 MD 21 MD 40 MD 59
         
MD 64 MD 609      
     
         
Ash Baur Catterton Dean Improved Narrow Leaf
         
Keller Pennbel 69 Pennlan Thompson  
 
         

Maryland Broadleaf Type 32. That type of air-cured tobacco also known as Southern Maryland or Maryland Air-cured tobacco produced principally in southern Maryland.  Maryland is similar to burley but somewhat milder and lighter in taste.  It is low in carbohydrates and nicotine and average in nitrogenous materials and nonvolatile acids.

Type 41. That type of cigar-leaf tobacco commonly known as Pennsylvania Seedleaf or Pennsylvania Broadleaf, produced principally in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and adjoining counties, and including other areas of Pennsylvania and Maryland in which the seedleaf variety is grown.

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