770 



Chicory and other Substitutes for Coffee. 



Judging from the number of exhibitors and samples, the cultivation 

 of chicory is far from being extensive or remunerative. Few of the 

 specimens sent are of much value, and none can, under any circum- 

 stances, represent coffee in flavour. As an adulteration the chicory 

 may be profitable, and, supposing this to be its principal use, the 

 exhibition of much was not to be expected. 



There is a curious seed exhibited from Turkey called " Kenguel : " 

 it is said to be extensively cultivated in the Kair-yr-eh and Komah ; 

 and roasted ground, and used like coffee. The plant is the " Gumelia." 



Tobacco. 



The exhibition of raw and manufactured tobacco is (upon the 

 whole) one of the most satisfactory of the class on which the Jury 

 were called upon to decide. The import trade is very fully repre- 

 sented by numerous samples of excellent articles. The British, 

 German, Algerine, and United States manufactured tobaccos for smok- 

 ing and chevsring are no less complete ; and the products of the 

 famous snuff-mills of Scotland, Ireland, Portugal, and Austria are all 

 shown. 



British Exhibitors. — The beautiful cases of W. Benson have been 

 awarded a Prize Medal : they contain an epitome of the London 

 tobacco trade ; and amongst them a box of Havannah cigars, ticketed 

 Flor de Cabanas, Partagas, and Martinez manufacture, stands pre- 

 eminent for evenness and perfection of manufacture. The variously 

 sized, coloured, and formed cigars in one box are stated to be all the 

 produce of the same crop of tobacco ; differences of colour and strength, 

 and, in some degree, of aroma, also, depending upon the age of the 

 leaf employed, and its position on the plant, — the oldest or lowest 

 being used for the well-known (and extensively counterfeited) flat oily 

 cigars called " Bravas." 



Among other raw or leaf tobaccos, the American varieties are par- 

 ticularly well illustrated, but too insufficiently labelled to convey 

 much information to the public, who would be glad to learn, from 

 such a collection, that the commoner " shag tobacco," is prepared 

 chiefly from the "Mason" county leaf ; the mild "Kanaster" and 

 similar qualities from the thin, delicately flavoured, mild, Ohio leaf; 

 the common strong ships' tobacco, extensively used in the lloyal 

 Navy, from the Virginia leaf, &c. 



Hungarian tobacco, almost unknown in Great Britain, is also 



