tured. Several others are known to be grown for use 
amongst various tribes of Indians, some of whom, 
by the bye, have arrived at a refinement in the use 
of this luxury, which must put to the blush the 
admirers of mere leaf-smoke. These Indians, — in- 
habitants of the banks of the Missouri, as related 
by Pursh, prepare, “for their ow T n smoking,” a 
delicate species of Tobacco, not from leaves, but 
from the flowers of the species they cultivate. 
Thus we see that the time has to arrive, when 
smoking Englishmen shall possess the refined 
taste of their “Tall Indian” brethren. 
From the smoker of Tobacco it should not be 
concealed, that the essential oil of Tobacco, like 
that from its kindred plants, Henbane and Deadly 
Nightshade, is a virulent poison ; and which, in 
smoking, is inhaled and swallowed, and is frequent- 
ly productive of paralysis. Its frequent use, like 
that of Opium, renders the system less sus- 
ceptible of its active qualities ; this, however, is 
but the evidence of disordered functions, — of na- 
tural sensitiveness destroyed ; an effect which, like 
the effects of other poisons, can only be advan- 
tageous where rendered necessary by disease. 
The Nicotiana cerinthoides was brought to this 
country from New Zealand ; it forms a handsome 
plant, but its flowers are smaller than those of 
some American species. Its seeds may be sown 
in spring, in a hotbed, and the seedlings trans- 
planted in May, into the borders. It also admits 
of being treated as a biennial; and if sown early 
in September, and the young plants protected, they 
will be finer than those from spring-sown seeds. 
