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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 52.] APRIL. [1891. 
CXCV.—PERSIAN TOBACCO OR TOMBAK. 
(Nicotiana Tabacum, L.) 
A curious confusion has long existed as to the vw miami of 
the сво plant cultivated in Persia. Flückiger and Han 
ographia, one of the most accurate books ever P DUDAS 
remark (2nd ed., р. 469), “ Nicotiana persica, Lindl., yields the tobacco 
Shiraz.” Bentley and Trimen, Medicinal Spe vol. iii., sub. tab. 
191, attribute Poran or Shiraz tobacco to the sa e species. hese 
statements are adopted from the account and figure Wiblished by Lindley 
in the Botanical Register (tab. 1592). He says, “ We are happy to 
* have the opportunity of laying before our readers a genuine figure 
** and description of sd = which chen => far-famed Tobacco 
Shi 
«of raz. The е on Virginian tobacco is also cultivated in 
* Persia; but this it is а which the finest gini» is manufactured. 
* of it were brought from Persia by Sir Henry Willock, Ape 
= erm to the a ae А а д in whose garden it blossomed 
* in September and October 
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