Re:CULT:Tobacco
- Subject: Re:CULT:Tobacco
- From: B* S*
- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 09:05:35 -0400
Dallas is quite right about tobacco. Many commercial nurseries now ban all
tobacco products--and some even smokers--from their greenhouses and fields.
TMV can attack an amazingly wide array of plants.
Curiously, most of the ornamental tobaccos (N. alata, N. sylvestris, etc.)
do not appear virused and have not proven to be problems in transmitting TMV
to other plants. In our garden, several flowering tobaccos coexist with
irises and other plants over many years without problems.
By the way, our winter was so mild that both alata and sylvestris tobaccos
lived over and are now producing an unprecedented show. And the evening
fragrance is terrific. At least the alatas can be cut back in a few weeks
for more bloom late in the summer. Both these plants will reappear even
after a normal winter from bits of roots left behind when the old ones were
pulled up.
I much prefer the tall old alata types to the overbred (and non-fragrant)
compact modern hybrids. Sylvestris is unsurpassed as an accent plant in the
border, with huge leaves and long stems of drooping white flowers. Some of
ours this year are now seven feet tall!
Bill Shear (Z7a VA)
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