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229 NATURAL HISTORY. | 
England. ‘The fécond fort is called the fweet feented | 
tobacco, from its affording, when fmoked, a moft a- 
greeable fcent ; this fortis very much cultivated in — 
Cuba, Brafil, Virginia, and feveral other parts of As 
merica; from whence it is fent to moft parts of Eu- 
rope, but efpecially to England, where its general 
culture is prohibited, left the revenue fhould be di- 
minifhed. ‘The third fort is the greater narrow leaved 
a 
perennial tobacco, imported from the French fettle- — 
ments in the Weftindies into the royal gardens at Pa- 
ris, where it is cultivated in fmal! quantities for the 
making of fnuff. ‘The fourth and fifth forts are pre- 
_ ferved in Botanic gardens, lefs for ufe than for va- 
riety. 
Tobacco is raifed from feeds fown in arich ground, ~ 
where the rifing plants are covered, to defend them 
from the fun: Inthe rainy feafons they are tranf- 
planted into large pieces of ground that are cleared 
and prepared for the purpofe. ‘The diftance of the 
rows in thefe plantations is about two or three feet, 
or fuch adiftance'as will not admit their extending ~ 
leaves touching, which would caufe them to rot, by 
corrupting each other. ‘The tobacco being thus 
tranfplanted, they only require to be weeded, until 
the flower items appear, when they cut off the tops 
in order to afford more nourifhment to the leaves : 
The leaves hanging on the ground are likewife pulled 
fo as to let remain about ten or twelve upon each 
ftalk, which caufes a great ‘increafe. The leaves, 
when ripened, are cut and fpread upon the ground ; 
They are then ftrung upox certain cords in little 
knots, at fuch diftances as the plants may not touch 
one another: They are next hung to dry in the air, 
in a fituation ptarded from the wet, during fifteen or 
twenty days. When fufficiently prepared, they are — 
made into fuch forms as the purchafer defires, 

