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plants. When left to grow until the plants have reached 
full size, the tobacco field has the appearance of a vast flower 
garden, the tiny blossoms exhaling their fragrance and the 
entire plant emitting odors as rare and as delicate as the most 
fragrant exotic.’ In the tropics the finest tobacco plantations 
are found, as nature is more lavish, not only in the richness 
of the soil, but in the variety of the vegetable products. 
Here the tobacco plant attains its finest form and most deli- 
cately flavored leaves. The hues of the flowers are brighter 
and their fragrance sweeter. | In the tropics the tobacco field 
may be scented from afar, as its odors are wafted on the 
breeze. In its native home it flourishes and matures as 
readily as the more common kinds of vegetation, while it 
affords the planter a larger revenue than many of the more 
useful of nature’s products. 
