CONTENTS. , XV 



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 Senti- 

 ment 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 Chris- 

 tians 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 To- 

 bacco Markets Ohio Tobacco Mode of Cure Kentucky Tobacco- 

 Growing The Kentucky Planter Florida Tobacco Florida Planta- 

 tation Tobacco in Lousiana 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 Plan- 

 tations Tobacco in Africa Syrian Tobacco Latakia Tobacco 

 Growing Tobacco in India Curing Tobacco in India Turks Culti- 

 vating Tobacco Japanese Tobacco Persian Tobacco Tobacco 

 Culture, Philippine Islands Climate of the Islands Fragrant 

 Manillas Tropical Tobacco 311 



CHAPTER XI. 



VARIETIES. 



Kinds used for Cigars Dwarf Tobacco Havana Tobacco Yara and 

 Virginia Tobacco James River Tobacco Ohio Tobacco South 

 American Tobacco Celebrated Brands of Tobacco Russian 

 Tobacco Columbian Tobacco Tobacco of Brazil The Orinoco 

 Tobacco Persian Tobacco French Tobacco Spanish Tobacco 

 Japanese Tobacco Manilla Tobacco 382 



CHAPTER XII. 



TOBACCO HOUSES. 



Tobacco Sheds Stripping Houses Virginia Tobacco Sheds Ordinary 

 Sheds Superior Sheds Ohio Sheds Kentucky and Tennessee 

 Sheds Foreign Tobacco Sheds 405 



