One of the finest varieties of pipe-weed, along with Old Toby and Southern Star.

Longbottom, in the Southfarthing was the first place in the Shire where pipe-weed was grown, and so Longbottom Leaf was one of the oldest varieties of pipe-weed known.

The major grower of Longbottom Leaf was Tobold Hornblower, and his family continued the tradition. When Merry and Pippin found barrels of Longbottom Leaf in the ruins of Isengard, they all bore the brand-marks of the Hornblower family.
Encyclopedia entry originally written by atalante_star