cco -- Grinding the
Leaves -- Flavoring the Snuff -- Profits Made -- Love of
Tobacco -- Chewing and Dipping -- Advantages of Dipping --
The First Snuffers -- Famous Snuff-Takers -- Snuff as a
Pacificator -- A National Stimulant -- Different Tastes --
Rise and Progress of Snuff-Taking............................ 218

CHAPTER IX.

CIGARS.

New York Cigars -- Havana Cigars -- Quality of Havana Cigars
-- Relative Value and Size -- Cigar-Makers -- Cuban Cigars
-- Cigar Manufactories -- Preparation of the Tobacco --
Sorting the Leaves -- Sales, etc. -- Large Factories --
Universal Smoking -- Cigar Etiquette -- Reveries --
Summer-Day Thoughts -- American Smokers -- At Home --
Sentiment -- Ode to a Cigar -- Cigar-Lighters -- Smoking an
Art -- Science of Lighting -- Age of Fusees -- "Home-Made
Cigars" -- Female Cigar-Makers -- A Spicy Article -- How to
Smoke -- Smoking Christians -- Lamb's Poem -- Tobacco
Compliment -- Cigarette Smoking -- Thomas Hood's Cigar --
Lord Byron's Opinion -- Kinds of Cigars -- Selecting Cigars
-- Yara Cigars -- Manilla Cigars -- Swiss Cigars -- Paraguay
Cigars -- Brazilian Cigars -- American Cigars -- Connecticut
Seed Leaf and Havana Cigars -- The Exile's Comfort........... 259

CHAPTER X.

TOBACCO PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS.

The Connecticut Planter -- Intelligence of Tobacco Growers
-- Best Connecticut Seed Leaf -- Love for the Plant --
Virginia Planters -- A Virginia Plantation -- The
Plant-Patch -- Planting, Topping and Priming -- Suckering --
Crop-Gathering -- Curing and Sorting -- Tobacco Markets --
Ohio Tobacco -- Mode of Cure -- Kentucky Tobacco-Growing --
The Kentucky Planter -- Florida Tobacco -- Florida
Plantation -- Tobacco in Louisiana -- California Tobacco
Lands -- Mexican Tobacco -- Plants around Vera Cruz --
Tobacco in St Domingo -- Cuba Plantations -- Mode of Working
-- Soil and Climate -- Tobacco-Growing in Germany -- Method
of Culture -- Extent of Culture -- Tobacco-Raising in
Prussia -- Tobacco in Holland -- Dutch Planters -- A Plea
for Tobacco -- Tobacco Culture in Australia -- Arabian
Plantations -- Tobacco in Africa -- Syrian Tobacco --
Latakia Tobacco -- Growing Tobacco in India -- Curing
Tobacco in India -- Turks Cultivating Tobacco -- Japanese
Tobacco -- Pe