Not my father’s generation, but my grandfather’s generation (he was born 1880) regaled me with stories of their fathers raising home grown tobacco they invariably called Long Green.
All agreed it was very strong, it didn’t taste as good as store bought tobacco, and most Long Green stories included the very young first time user getting sick smoking or chewing it.
The type was called Long Green, although the name described the long green leaves. It was raised in the family garden, chopped off and hung in a smokehouse or barn, and when brown their fathers moistened it and twisted it into ropes.
My guess is Long Green was a burley.
My grandfather died aged 92 in 1972, and he learned the taste for tobacco he said when he was about six, and my grandmother lit his last Camel the night he died of old age mostly, but infection from an ingrown toenail specifically.
He said that the Cotton Bill Twist he’d sometimes buy to chew, tasted exactly like Long Green. He also chewed plug, leaf, snorted nasal snuff, dipped snuff, smoked cigars and a pipe, hand rolled cigarettes, but never missed a payment on his Camels, which he liked the most.
Does anyone have any better information on home grown tobacco called Long Green.
From the stories, the kids who used it grew up to buy their tobacco and not try raising their own.
All agreed it was very strong, it didn’t taste as good as store bought tobacco, and most Long Green stories included the very young first time user getting sick smoking or chewing it.
The type was called Long Green, although the name described the long green leaves. It was raised in the family garden, chopped off and hung in a smokehouse or barn, and when brown their fathers moistened it and twisted it into ropes.
My guess is Long Green was a burley.
My grandfather died aged 92 in 1972, and he learned the taste for tobacco he said when he was about six, and my grandmother lit his last Camel the night he died of old age mostly, but infection from an ingrown toenail specifically.
He said that the Cotton Bill Twist he’d sometimes buy to chew, tasted exactly like Long Green. He also chewed plug, leaf, snorted nasal snuff, dipped snuff, smoked cigars and a pipe, hand rolled cigarettes, but never missed a payment on his Camels, which he liked the most.
Does anyone have any better information on home grown tobacco called Long Green.
From the stories, the kids who used it grew up to buy their tobacco and not try raising their own.