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equally pervade every part, the heaps are covered with a cloth, sometimes 

 blankets, mats, or a layer of straw. These heaps are opened and spread 

 abroad to the air from time to time, in order to prevent their overheating; 

 and when this process has been carried on till no more heat is perceived in 

 the heaps, the tobacco is fit for the manufacturer. At this stage, therefore, 

 in America, it is packed in casks for exportation. 



The farmer that understands how to make good meadow-hay, will be at 

 no loss how to make good tobacco. With regard to growing the plant, it 

 requires very little more care than growing a crop of cabbages : the extra 

 care is in raising the seedlings, pinching out the hearts, and off the side 

 shoots, and gathering any caterpillars that may appear on the leaves. Any 

 British farmer who contemplates a trial of the tobacco culture, and does not 

 feel himself fully master of the subject, will find his difficulties easiest solved 

 by applying to the nearest intelligent gardener ; let him be a reading gar- 

 dener : but whoever understands the general principles of culture, — that is, 

 whatever farmer is capable of reasoning on what passes under his notice 

 in the culture of turnips and cabbages, and the making of hay, — is per- 

 fectly competent to cultivate tobacco. 



Those who are curious to know what has already been done in this way 

 in Britain, may turn to our Encyclopedia of Agriculture, Art. Tobacco, in 

 the Index, when they will find references to its culture in Hindostan, at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, in Yorkshire, and in Roxburghshire. They will 

 also find there some account of the manufacture of tobacco into the differ- 

 ent forms in which it is used for chewing and smoking, and into the different 

 kinds of snuff. 



Sweden. 



Wahlenberg: Flora Suecica enumerans Plantas Sueciae indig. post Linngeum. 

 Upsaliae. 8vo, pars 2da. 17s. 



North America. 



Mitchill, Samuel L-, M. D. Member of many Societies in America and Eu- 

 rope : Address pronounced before the New York Horticultural Society, 

 in the Literary and Philosophical Hall of the Institution, on their Annual 

 Celebration, Aug. 29. 1826. New York. Pamph. 8vo, pp. 52. 



An eloquent discourse, embracing the most extensive views. Dr. Mit- 

 chill, in order to show how much nature is improved or rendered subser- 

 vient to man by art, takes a brief survey of the globe, and especially of the 

 western hemisphere, before it was subdued by cultivation. The forest, 

 the bogs, the wild beasts, and the scattered tribes of savages, gradually give 

 way to man, operating by fire and the tools and instruments of cultivation, 

 and building houses, forming roads, and planting maize, beans, and tobacco. 

 After a series of years, the productions of different and distant soils are 

 reared where they never originally grew. 



" The tillage of the earth, in extensive farms and plantations, has been 

 denominated agriculture; while the more careful management of it, in nar- 

 row limits and small tracts, is termed gardening, or, in more modern lan- 

 guage, horticulture. It is here that the lord of the soil manifests his 

 greatest ability. Your weekly and elegant exhibitions show the degree to 

 which the art has already advanced. 



" In visiting the grounds of several members belonging to this society, 

 the eye is attracted by alluring and excellent objects. It beholds culture 

 by the best of tools and implements, the most effectual methods adopted to 

 eradicate weeds, the greatest care taken to introduce proper manures, and 

 excellent economy in the performance of labour. It is charming to examine 



