Requisites for the successful culture of the poppy for
    opium.

  The TOBACCO PLANT; species cultivated.

    London’s classification.

Analyses of various samples of tobacco; Statistics of the culture in Brazil; extent of the consumption; considerations of revenue; memorial of Liverpool Chamber of Commerce.

    Comparative consumption of tea, coffee and tobacco, per
    head.

    Imports and duty received on tobacco in the last five
    years.

    Consumption checked in England and France by the high
    duties.

    Imports, sales, and stocks, in Bremen for 10 years.

    Culture and statistics in the United States.

    Quantity exported from 1821 to 1850.

    Countries from whence we received our supplies in 1850.

    Particulars of the tobacco trade in 1850 and 1853.

    Mode of culture pursued in Virginia.

    General instructions for the planter.

    Information as to growing Cuba tobacco.

    History of the trade and cultivation in Cuba.

    Statistics of exports from the Havana.

    Culture of tobacco in the East.

    Analysis of tobacco soils.

    Progress of cultivation and shipments in Ceylon.

    Manila tobacco and cigars.

    Production in the Islands of the Archipelago.

    Suggestions and directions for tobacco culture in New
    South Wales.

    Its value and extensive use as a sheep wash.

    Excellence of the product and manufacture in New South
    Wales; culture of tobacco in South Australia.

  MISCELLANEOUS DRUGS.

    Poisons.

  ALOES:  varieties of the plant; culture and manufacture
  in Socotra, Barbados, and the Cape Colony.

  ASAFOETIDA.

  CAMPHOR.

  CINCHONA BARK:  commercial varieties of CALUMBA ROOT.

  COLOCYNTH.

  CUBEBS.

  GAMBOGE.

  GENTIAN.

  IPECACUAN.

INTRODUCTORY.

The want of a practical work treating of the cultivation and manufacture of the chief Agricultural Productions of the Tropics and Foreign Countries, has long been felt, for not even separate essays are to be met with on very many of the important subjects treated of in this volume.

The requirements of several friends proceeding to settle in the Colonies, and wishing to devote themselves to Cotton culture, Coffee planting, the raising of Tobacco, Indigo, and other agricultural staples, first called my attention to the consideration of this fertile and extensive field of investigation.

Professor Solly, in one of the series of Lectures on the results of the Great Exhibition, delivered before the Society of Arts, early last year, made some practical remarks bearing on the subject:—­