PERSONAL NOTES ON MAKING BLENDED CIGARS & GROWING BURLEY TOBACCO Buckram Grove Press List of Illustrations: [flyleaves/pastedowns] newly planted 3 weeks planted 6 weeks planted 8 weeks planted “Multitasking” [frontispiece] My Stogies 2 Rolled Chop 6 Binding Chop (1) 8 Binding Chop (2) 8 Binding Chop (3) 9 2006 Crop 12 2008 Crop 12 Germination Tray 13 Topping 17 Laid Out To Wilt 18 Spearing the Stalk (1&2) 19 Full Stick 20 Hanging Green Tobacco 20 Cutting Wrapper Strips 25 Bread Cutter 27 Bag of Chop 27 “cigar machine” 29, 42 Szamosi 32 Orinoco 33 Tennessee Red 34 Havana 36 Bagged Flowerhead 37 Opening Bag 39 Pods (1&2) 40 Seeds (1&2) 41 Tobacco Canes (1&2) 48 Cigar Band (1) 49 Cigar Band (2) 50 Tobacco Flower 53 complete concordance from index: 142, Havana 503b, Havana acetate adhesive aesthetic aging air-flow Alaska annual aphids aroma auction August bag Band binder binding black blade blend blossoms blunt boiling bookbinding bread break British brittle burley Canada catapillar chemicals chemistry chop cigarette cigarettes climate colour Columbia compact compaction compost/potting compost compressed compression computers cooker corn County cracking crinkling crop cross-pollinates Cuba cultivation cure cured cures curing curled curved cut-worm cutter cutworm cylinder density detritus diameter dimension dirt discoloured dowel dowelling draw electric Erie Europe European February fertilizer fertilizing flavor flavour flavoured flavours flour, all purpose flower flower-head flowering flue-cured, flue-curing foot freezing frost frost-bite frypan fusil germination giants gold gold-tipped Golden graded grading guillotine hang harvest havana heat holder horn humidified humidity humidor insect January June kiln knife ladybugs Lake Erie loam machine March mature matured maturing maturity mezaluna mildew Mississippi misted misting moist moistened moisture moisturizing mold mylar needle needles nicotine Norfolk nose Ontario Orinoco paste pest pipe plastic plugs pod pollen potting prime ratio re-seeding Refrigeration rib ring roller rolling rolls rubber Russian Sabrinis sand, sands, sandy seed seedling seeds self-pollinate shears shed soil spear Spearing spiral spot spots sprayer stave stem stick sticks storage strip stripped suckering suckers surplus Szamosi tag tamp tamping tap-water tar tar-covered Tennessee time-table tip tips top topping transplanting transportation tray trays trim trimmed trimming trimmings tube tubes varieties variety vein veins Virginia weed weeds wheat wheat-flour white wilt wilted wire wood wooden wrap wrapped wrapper wrappers wrinkle wrinkled wrinkles yellow