Smokiana: Historical; EthnographicalPritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)
History
Smokiana: Historical; Ethnographical
Pritchett, R. T. (Robert Taylor)
Smoking; Tobacco pipes
71 Opium Gear.
73 Japanese ditto
75 Borneo.
77 Sumatra & Java
79 Australia.
81 New Zealand.
83 New Guinea.
85 S. America.
87 N. America.
89 N. AMER. Stone Pipes
91 Canada.
93 Nootka Sound.
95 Arctic Pipes.
=IGNITION.=
97 Sumatra & Borneo.
99 S. America.
101 England old
&
_New._
[Illustration]
Tobacco Plants & their Varieties.
[Illustration]
Although Smoking is generally associated with Tobacco only, yet there
are other plants whose leaves are used for similar purposes & these
will be referred to as we come to the different means of using them.
Our first Woodcut of Tobacco is from STELLA—ROMA 1669. a work of
[Illustration: D·B
STELLA ROMA.
A·D 1669.
“ILTABACCO”
TABACCO LATIFOGLIO.
PRIMA specie.
DELLA SECONDA Specie.
TAB. ANGUSTIFOGLIO.
TERZA SPECIE.]
great value as giving Pipes & the Hookah of Persia as well as Plants
but we will start with some of the growths now most generally known of
the “NICOTIANA” Family which is very widely spread over the face of the
Earth & has of late made great strides in Borneo & Sumatra.
NICOTIANA “_TABACUM_”. (The mother of the family) Height 5 ft. Leaf
12^{in} to 14^{in.} Corolla Pink. Virginia manilla.
N. “_RUSTICA_”. Height 3 to 4 ft. Leaf 10^{in.} to 12^{in.} Corolla
Greenish into Yellow. Turkey & India.
N. “_REPANDA_”. Small. Corolla white. Havannah.
N. “_PERSICA_”.—or Bombay, all used in Persia by the Royal Family.
(SHIRAZ tobacco).
N. “_AFFINIS_” is our Garden Plant with long tube 3½^{in.} with Corolla
White. Very fragrant. Habitat. Isle of Pines. S. PACIFIC.
[Illustration: NICOTIANA FRAGRANS WHITE.
N. TABACUM.
PINK.
RTP.]
We are greatly indebted to old German woodcuts for solid information
anent details of Habits & customs of the 16^{th.} Century which our own
people have not handed down to us, take for instance “Hans Sachs.” Book
of Trades. Had smoking been in vogue in his day he would have given
it—or rather Jost Ammon would have illustrated it so here in _1616
·A·D_ we find a Sturdy German, blowing a tremendous cloud. It is taken
from an old work now in Frankfurt—viz
“Völler Von Gellhausen (ULRICUS).”
Das ist
“Ein. Blumenbuck.”
Small Folio.
Franckfurt
am Mayne.
M. Weixner. Formscheider und Mahler. _A·D 1616._
[Illustration: VÖLLER
VON GELLHAUSEN
A·D 1616.
49
Tabact.
FRANKFURT AM MAYN.]
Pipes.
[Illustration]
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