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CHAPTER IX. 
CIGARS. 
New York Cigars—Havana Cigars—Quality of Havana Cigars—Relative 
Value and Size—Cigar- Makers—Cuban Cigars—Cigar Manufactories 
—Preparation of the Tobacco—Sorting the Leaves—Sales, etc.— 
Large Factories—Universal Smoking—Cigar Etiquette—Reveries 
—Summer-Day Thoughts—American Smokers—At Home—Senti- 
ment—QOde to a Cigar—Cigar-Lighters—Smoking an Art—Science 
of Lighting—Age of Fusees—‘‘ Home-Made Cigars”—Female 
Cigar-Makers—A Spicy Article—How to Smoke—Smoking Chris- 
tians—Lamb’s Poem—Tobacco Compliment—Cigarette Smoking— 
Thomas Hood’s Cigar—Lord Byron’s Opinion—Kinds of Cigars— 
Selecting Cigars—Yara Cigars—-Manilla Cigars—Swiss Cigars—- 
Paraguay Cigars—Brazilian Cigars—American Cigars—Connecticut 
Seed Leaf and Havana Cigars—The Exile’s Comfort............. 259 
CHAPTER X. 
TOBACCO PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS. 
The Connecticut Planter—Intelligence of Tobacco Growers—Best 
Connecticut Seed Leaf—Love for the Plant—Virginia Planters— 
A Virginia Plantation—The Plant-Patch—Planting, Topping and 
Priming—Suckering—Crop-Gathering—Curing and Sorting—To- 
bacco Markets—Ohio Tobacco—Mode of Cure—Kentucky Tobacco~- 
Growing—The Kentucky Planter—Florida Tobacco—Florida Planta- 
tation—Tobacco in Lousiana—California Tobacco Lands—Mexican 
Tobacco-—-Plants around Vera Cruz—Tobacco in St Domingo— 
Cuba Plantations—Mode of Working—Soil and Climate—Tobacco- 
Growing in Germany—Method of Culture—Extent of Culture— 
Tobacco-Raising in Prussia—Tobacco in Holland—Dutch Planters— 
A Plea for Tobacco—Tobacco Culture in Australia—Arabian Plan- 
tations—Tobacco in Africa—Syrian Tobacco—Latakia Tobacco— 
Growing Tobacco in India—Curing Tobacco in India—Turks Culti- 
vating Tobacco—Japanese Tobacco—Persian Tobacco—Tobacco 
Culture, Philippine Islands—Climate of the Islands—Fragrant 
Manillas—Tropical Tobacco... ..... ccc cece eee reece ener een eenes 311 
CHAPTER XI. 
VARIETIES. 
Kinds used for Cigars—Dwarf Tobacco—Havana Tobacco—Yara and 
Virginia Tobacco—James River Tobacco—Ohio Tobacco—South 
American Tobaceo— Celebrated Brands of Tobacco — Russian 
Tobacco—Columbian Tobacco—Tobacco of Brazil—The Orinoco 
Tobacco—Persian Tobacco—French Tobacco—Spanish Tobacco— 
Japanese Tobacco—Manilla Tobacco..........sese eee eeees eres 382 
CHAPTER XII. 
TOBACCO HOUSES. 
Tobacco Sheds—Stripping Houses—Virginia Tobacco Sheds—Ordinary 
Sheds—Superior Sheds—Ohio Sheds—Kentucky and Tennessee 
Sheds—Foreign Tobacco Sheds........-+++.4+- so abarn shesaapems auue as 405 
