THE "QUEEN'S HERB." 



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first into fashion by Sir Walter Long. They had first silver 

 pipes. The ordinary sort made use of a walnut shell and a 



SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 



strawe. I have heard my grandfather Lyte say that one pipe 

 was handed from man to man round the table. Sir Walter 

 Ealeigh standing in a stand at Sir Ko. Poyntz parke at 

 Acton tooke a pipe of tobacco, which made the ladies quitte 

 it till he had donne." 



A writer has truthfully said in regard to associating the 

 name and use of the plant with the primitive users of it. 



"The ambitious sought fame by associating themselves 

 with the introduction of the plant and its cultivation ; hence 

 we find it named after cardinals, legates, and embassadors, 

 while in compliment to Catherine, wife of Henry the Second, 

 it was called the Queen's herb." 



Kings now rushed into the tobacco trade. Those of Spain 

 took the lead, and became the largest manufacturers of snuff 



*Savary says that tobacco hag been known among the Persians for upwards of 400 years, 

 and supposes that they received it from Egypt, and not from the East Indies. 



