FOR VICTORIAN INDUSTRIAL CULTURE. 



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Nephelium Longanum, Cambessedes. 



India and Sonthern China. The Longan-fruit is obtained 

 from this tree; it is smaller than that of the Litchi-tree. 



Nicotiana multivalvis, Lindley. 



The Native Tobacco of the Columbia E-iver. An annual. 

 This with the following species can be utilised for certain 

 kinds of Tobacco. 



Nicotiana Persica, Lindley. 



The Shiraz Tobacco. Persia. Annual. This can be brought 

 to perfection only in cool mountain-regions. The mode of 

 culture is somewhat different to that of the ordinary Tobacco. 

 Moderate irrigation is favourable. The plants when ripe are 

 cut off and stuck into the ground again until they become 

 yellow. They are then heaped together for a few days in the 

 drying-house. They are then packed into thin strata and 

 placed into bags, for pressure and daily turning. 



Nicotiana quadrivalvis, Pursh. 



The Native Tobacco of the Missouri. An annual. 



Nicotiana repanda, Willdenow. 



Cuba, Mexico, Texas. Annual. It is utilised for some of 

 the Havannah Tobaccoes. 



Nicotiana rustica, Linne. 



Tropical America. Annual. Some sorts of Eastern India 

 Tobacco, of Manilla Tobacco and of Turkey Tobacco are 

 derived from this particular species. 



Nicotiana Tabacum, Linne.* 



The ordinary Tobacco-plant of Central America. Annual. 

 Various districts with various soils produce very different 

 sorts of Tobacco, particularly as far as flavour is concerned, 

 and again various climatic conditions will affect vastly the 

 Tobacco-plant in this respect. We can thus not hope to 

 produce for instance Manilla or Havannah Tobacco in our 

 latitudes, but we can anticipate to produce good sorts of our 

 own, more or less peculiar, or we may aspire to producing in 

 our rich and frostless forest-valleys a Tobacco similar to that 

 of Kentucky, Maryland, Connecticut and Virginia, parts of 

 Victoria resembling in climate very much these countries. 

 Frost is detrimental to the Tobacco-plant; not only particu- 

 larly when young must it be guarded against it, but frost will 

 also injure the ripe crop. Mr. Politz consider the scarcity 

 of dew in some of our districts to militate against the pro- 

 duction of the best kinds, otherwise the yield as a rule is 

 large, and the soil in many places well-adapted for this 



