THE “QUEEN'S HERB.” 89 
first into fashion by Sir Walter Long. They had first silver 
pipes. The ordinary sort made use of a walnut shell and a 
SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 
strawe. I have heard my grandfather Lyte say that one pipe 
was handed from man to man round the table. Sir Walter 
Raleigh standing in a stand at Sir Ro. Poyntz parke at 
‘Acton tooke a pipe of tobacco, which made the ladies quitte 
it till he had donne.” 
A writer has truthfully said in regard to associating the 
name and use of the plant with the primitive users of it. 
“The ambitious sought fame by asscciating themselves 
with the introduction of the plant and its cultivation; hence 
we find it named after cardinals, legates, and embassadors, 
while in compliment to Catherine, wite of Henry the Second, 
it was called the Queen’s herb.” 
Kings now rushed into the tohacco trade. Those of Spain 
took the lead, and became the largest manufacturers of snuff 
*Savary says that tobacco has been known among the Persians for upwards of 400 years 
and supposes that they received it from Egypt, and not from the East Indies, sf ‘ 
