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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.Carver, Jonathan

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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.

Name: 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.
Author: Carver, Jonathan

Carver, Jonathan

Tobacco

A

                             TREATISE

                              ON THE

                             CULTURE

                              OF THE

                          TOBACCO PLANT.

                 Price Two Shillings and Sixpence.

  [Illustration: _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

  [Illustration: _Tobacco plant_
  _Drawn and Engraved by Copland & Sansom No 16 Maiden Lane_]

A TREATISE, _&c._

CHAPTER I.

_Of the Discovery and Uses of Tobacco._

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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.

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