ce to the commerce of the world. This work
has been prepared and arranged, not only for the instruction and
entertainment of the users of tobacco, but for the benefit of the
cultivators and manufacturers as well. As such it is now presented to
the public for whatever meed of praise or censure it is found to
deserve.

Hartford, Conn., 1875.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page

1. Frontispiece. --

2. Tobacco Stalks. 22

3. Tobacco Leaves. 24

4. Bud and Flowers. 25

5. Capsules. (Fruit Bud.) 27

6. Suckers. 28

7. Primitive Pipe. 33

8. Native Smoking. 35

9. Old Engraving. 40

10. The Contrast. 44

11. John Rolfe. 48

12. Virginia Tobacco Field, 1620. 51

13. Buying Wives. 57

14. Growing Tobacco in the Streets. 64

15. Natives Growing Tobacco. 66

16. Destroying Suckers. 69

17. Carrying Tobacco to Market. 73

18. Enriching Plant-Bed. 75

19. Shipping Tobacco. 78

20. Old Engraving of Tobacco. 86

21. Sir Walter Raleigh. 89

22. English Gallants. 90

23. Smoking in the 17th Century. 94

24. Exhaling through the Nose. 97

25. Old London Ale-house. 101

26. Punishment for Snuff Taking. 104

27. Silver Spittoons. 106

28. The Negro Image. 108

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