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Nephelium Longanum, Cambess. 



India and Southern China. The Longan-fruit is obtained 

 from this tree ; it is smaller than that of the Litchi-tree. 



Nicotiana multivalvis, Lindley. 



The Native Tobacco of the Columbia Eiver. An annual. 

 This with the following species can be utilized for certain 

 kinds of Tobacco. 



Nicotiana Persica, Lindley. 



The Shiraz Tobacco. Persia. Annual. This can be brought 

 to perfection only in cool mountain regions. The mode of 

 culture is somewhat different to that of the ordinary Tobacco. 

 Moderate irrigation is favorable. The plants when ripe are 

 cut off and stuck into the ground again until they become 

 yellow.. They are then heaped together for a few days in 

 the drying-house. They are then packed into thin strata 

 and placed into bags, for pressure and daily turning. 



Nicotiana quadrivalvis, Pursh. 



The Native Tobacco of the Missouri. An annual. 



Nicotiana repanda, Willd. 



Cuba, Mexico, Texas. Annual. It is utilized for some of 

 the Havannah Tobaccoes. 



Nicotiana rustica, L. 



Tropical America. Annual. Some sorts of Eastern India 

 Tobacco, of Manilla Tobacco and of Turkey (for instance 

 Latakia) Tobacco are derived from this particular species. 



Nicotiana Tabacum, L.* 



The ordinary Tobacco-plant of Central America. Annual. 

 Various districts with various soils produce very different 

 sorts of Tobacco, particularly as far as flavor is concerned, 

 and again various climatic conditions will affect vastly the 

 Tobacco-plant in this respect. We can thus not hope to 

 produce for instance Manilla or Havannah Tobacco in our 

 latitudes, but we can anticipate to produce good sorts of 

 our own, more or less peculiar, or we may aspire to pro- 

 ducing in our rich and frostless forest valleys a Tobacco 



