New York Cigars -- Havana Cigars -- Quality of Havana Cigars -- Relative Value and Size -- Cigar-Makers -- Cuban Cigars -- Cigar Manufactories -- Preparation of the Tobacco -- Sorting the Leaves -- Sales, etc. -- Large Factories -- Universal Smoking -- Cigar Etiquette -- Reveries -- Summer-Day Thoughts -- American Smokers -- At Home -- Sentiment -- Ode to a Cigar -- Cigar-Lighters -- Smoking an Art -- Science of Lighting -- Age of Fusees -- "Home-Made Cigars" -- Female Cigar-Makers -- A Spicy Article -- How to Smoke -- Smoking Christians -- Lamb's Poem -- Tobacco Compliment -- Cigarette Smoking -- Thomas Hood's Cigar -- Lord Byron's Opinion -- Kinds of Cigars -- Selecting Cigars -- Yara Cigars -- Manilla Cigars -- Swiss Cigars -- Paraguay Cigars -- Brazilian Cigars -- American Cigars -- Connecticut Seed Leaf and Havana Cigars -- The Exile's Comfort........... 259 CHAPTER X. TOBACCO PLANTERS AND PLANTATIONS. The Connecticut Planter -- Intelligence of Tobacco Growers -- Best Connecticut Seed Leaf -- Love for the Plant -- Virginia Planters -- A Virginia Plantation -- The Plant-Patch -- Planting, Topping and Priming -- Suckering -- Crop-Gathering -- Curing and Sorting -- Tobacco Markets -- Ohio Tobacco -- Mode of Cure -- Kentucky Tobacco-Growing -- The Kentucky Planter -- Florida Tobacco -- Florida Plantation -- Tobacco in Louisiana -- California Tobacco Lands -- Mexican Tobacco -- Plants around Vera Cruz -- Tobacco in St Domingo -- Cuba Plantations -- Mode of Working -- Soil and Climate -- Tobacco-Growing in Germany -- Method of Culture -- Extent of Culture -- Tobacco-Raising in Prussia -- Tobacco in Holland -- Dutch Planters -- A Plea for Tobacco -- Tobacco Culture in Australia -- Arabian Plantations -- Tobacco in Africa -- Syrian Tobacco -- Latakia Tobacco -- Growing Tobacco in India -- Curing Tobacco in India -- Turks Cultivating Tobacco -- Japanese Tobacco -- Persian Tobacco -- Tobacco Culture, Philippine Islands -- Climate of the Islands -- Fragrant Manillas -- Tropical Tobacco............................................. 311 CHAPTER XI. VARIETIES. Kinds used for Cigars -- Dwarf Tobacco -- Havana Tobacco -- Yara and Virginia Tobacco -- James River Tobacco -- Ohio Tobacco -- South American Tobacco -- Celebrated Brands of Tobacco -- Russian Tobacco -- Columbian Tobacco -- Tobacco of Brazil -- The Orinoco Tobacco -- Persian Tobacco -- French Tobacco -- Spanish Tobacco -- Japanese Tobacco -- Manilla Tobacco.............................................. 382 CHAPTER XII. TOBACCO HOUSES. Tobacco Sheds -- Stripping Houses -- Virginia Tobacco Sheds -- Ordinary Sheds -- Superior Sheds -- Ohio Sheds -- Kentucky and Tennessee Sheds -- Foreign Tobacco Sheds........ 405 CHAPTER XIII.