TOBACCO: 
ITS 
HISTORY, VARIETIES, CULTURE, 
MANUFACTURE AND COMMERCE, 
WITH 
AN ACCOUNT OF ITS VARIOUS MODES OF USE, FROM ITS FIRST 
DISCOVERY UNTIL NOW. 
BY 
E. R. BILLINGS. 
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY POPULAR AETISTS. 
My Lord, this sacred herbe which never offendit, 
Is forced to crave your favor to defend it.” 
BakcLaY. 
“But oh, what witchereft of a stronger kind, 
Or cause too deep for hnmtan search to find, 
Makes earth-born weeds imperial man enslave,— 
Not little souls, but e’en the wise and brave!” 
AEBUCELE. 
HARTFORD, CONN: 
AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
1875. 
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