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I was looking at "London Bridge Is Falling Down", illustrated by Peter Spier, and there is an illustration of a tobacco shop (CA 18th century?) and there is a big jar marked "Nicotiana Persica" (along with jars marked Rappee, Java, Rustica, etc.)
Wikipedia has an article on Nicotiana alata, which mentions it is sometimes used in Iran for water pipe tobacco, and that it is also known as sweet tobacco, Jasmine tobacco, Persian tobacco.
It's this a variety that is available to those of us in the West? Is it considered one of the types of the general category, "Orientals?"
And perhaps most importantly: what is it like?
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