y 
til 
fi^^ 
ilaments are 
bent 
oblong anth 
CO • 
the germen 
inwards, tap 
IS OYSil 
J 
d fl 
b 
and 
crown 
with 
terminated by a round cleft iiigma 
ippo 
s 
a 
Ion 
the 
fl 
d 
divided into tvs^o ( 
It is a native of A 
oval, 
d 
which contain many fmall roundiih feeds 
> 
Tob 
d flowers in July and Au2:uft 
y 
firft imported into Europe ab 
o 
m 
fixteenth century by Hernandez de Toledo, who fen 
A. 
L 
Portug 
at that time the Ambafi 
of Francis 11 
■die of the 
Spain and 
ded at the 
coiirt of Lifbon, and in the year 1560, he carried the Tob 
France, when it was prefented to Catharine de Med 
from the nev/ world, poffeffi 
as 
fador s nam.e was Nicot, and h 
dinary 
pi 
the 
appe 
N 
The Ambaf- 
icotiana. It 
appears from Lobel, that this plant was cultivated in Britain previou 
3 
Tob 
d the introdudion of the cuftom of fmokine 
The cultivation of 
e year 1570 ; ar 
England is afcribed to Sir Walter Ral 
* 
fc3 
now common m various parts of 
lob 
e 
J 
nd though 
^ Vide 1. c. 
j^fgf^ 
follows : 
Jamaica, defcribes the method of its cultivation to be as 
plantation of Tobacco is intended, fevpml HpHq ^rp nrp- 
pared, well turned up with the hoe. . The feed, on account of its fmalhiefs, is mixed 
. withaOies, and fown upon them a h'ltle before the rainy feafon. The beds are then 
raked, or trampled with the feet, to make the feed take the fooner. The plants appear 
in two or three weeks. So foon as they have acquired four leaves, the ftrongeft are 
drawn up carefully and planted in the Tobacco field bv a line, at rhe AUhucp of nhont- 
three feet from each plant : this is done either with a flick or the finger. If no rain falls. 
it fliould be watered tv^o or three times, to make it ftrike root. Every morning and 
evening the plants muft be furveyed, in order to deftroy a worm which fometimes inv^ades 
the bud. When they are grown about four or five inches high they are to be cleaned 
from weeds, and moulded up ; and as foon as they have eight or nine leaves, and are 
ready to put forth a ftalk, the top is nipped oiF, in order to make the leaves longer and 
thicker. After this, the buds which fprout at the joints of the leaves are all plucked. 
which is fometimes very deftrudive to them. Whe.. ...^^ ^.^ ... .^x ^...^...^y wx..^... .^ 
]cnown by the brittlenefs of the leaves, they'are cut with a knife clofe to the ground; 
and after being left to lie there fome little time, are carried to the drying-fhed or houfe, 
where the plants are hung up, by pairs, upon lines or ropes ftretched acrofs, leaving a 
fpace between, that they may not touch one another. In this ftate they remain to fweat 
and dry. When they become perfedly dry, the leaves are ftripped from the ftalks, and 
made into fmall bundles, tied with another leaf. Thefe bundles are laid in heap^, and 
covei-ed with blankets. Care is taken not to overheat them j for v/hich reafon the heapS' 
are laid open to the air from time to time, and fpread abroad. This operation is repeated 
till no more heat is perceived in the heaps, and the Tobacco is then flowed in cafks for 
cxportation."^Vol. 3. p, 719. 
No. 
12. 
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