of its leaves, being fhorter and rounder, yet 

 it is unlike in its ftrength and flavour, being, 

 agreeable to its name, much milder and 

 pleafanter. 



As a fpecies of garden plants, the Nicoti- 

 ana is an ornamental annual for the pleafure 

 ground, as it attains a majeftic ftature, and 

 being adorned with fine luxuriant leaves, 

 and large clufters of pleafing flowers which 

 terminate all the fhoots, during the autumn 

 it exhibits an elegant appearance. 



For a more compleat idea of the Oronokoe 

 plant and its flowers, the reader is referred to 

 the plate prefixed to this Work. But it muft 

 be obferved, that the number of leaves re- 

 prefented on the ftalk is not defigned to fervc 

 as a rule for topping the tobacco, as directed 

 in the fourth chapter. Only a few of them 

 are annexed to the ftalk, that the reprefen- 

 tation of the leaf might be the more com- 

 pkat. 



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