CHAPTER I. Of the Discovery and Uses of Tobacco.
CHAPTER II. A Description of the Plant and its Flowers.
CHAPTER III. Of the Soil and Situation most proper for raising the Plant.
CHAPTER IV. Of its Culture, with a Description of the Worm that annoys it.
CHAPTER V. Of the Manner in which it is usually cured.
APPENDIX.
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Flowers of the Tobacco plant
Drawn and Engraved by Copland & Sansom No 16 Maiden Lane
A
TREATISE
ON THE
CULTURE
OF THE
TOBACCO PLANT;
WITH THE
Manner in which it is usually cured.
ADAPTED TO
NORTHERN CLIMATES,
AND
DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF THE
LANDHOLDERS OF GREAT-BRITAIN.
TO WHICH ARE PREFIXED,
Two Plates of the Plant and its Flowers.
By JONATHAN CARVER, Esq.
Author of Travels through the interior Parts of
North-America.
LONDON:
Printed for the Author,
And sold by J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-yard.
1779.
TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE PRESIDENT,
VICE-PRESIDENTS,
AND
MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETY
FOR THE
ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS,
MANUFACTURES AND
COMMERCE.
The Extension of every Branch of useful Knowledge being the great Object of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, the Author begs Leave to commit the following Treatise to their Patronage.
London, March 26th, 1779.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. |
| Of the Discovery and Uses of Tobacco | P. 1 |
| |
| CHAPTER II. |
| A Description of the Plant and its Flowers | 9 |
| |
| CHAPTER III. |
| Of the Soil and Situation most proper for raising the Plant | 13 |
| |
| CHAPTER IV. |
| Of its Culture, with a Description of the Worm that annoys it | 15 |
| |
| CHAPTER V. |
| Of the Manner in which it is usually cured | 28 |
| |
| APPENDIX | 35 |
Tobacco plant
Drawn and Engraved by Copland & Sansom No 16 Maiden Lane
A TREATISE, &c.
