TOBACCO LEAVES 



$20 to $65. Between these is an endless 

 series of varieties. 



The story of Havana and its tobacco 

 industries is familiar to all who have read 

 or travelled. Who has not heard of that 

 beautiful city which faces the Florida 

 channel, whose harbour is crowded with 

 ships, whose houses and suburbs cover a 

 score of picturesque hills, whose streets 

 are crowded with gaily-dressed, blithe- 

 hearted men and women, whose climate is 

 perpetual summer, and whose people give 

 to the world its most precious cigars and 

 cigarettes? The city is Cuban politically; 

 it is Spanish racially; it is American geo- 

 graphically; it is a mixture of white and 

 black races, with a dash of the blood of 

 the red men who once inhabited the island. 

 Its commerce is vast and various. But of 

 that the world little heeds. In the popular 

 mind, it is the City Beautiful, which sits 

 beneath the shadow of the Morro Castle, 



