FRENCH TOBACCO. 399 



Holland since its first introduction, with complete success, 

 producing a variety for snuff unrivaled by any other tobacco 

 grown in Europe. 



In color Dutch tobacco is both dark and light ; the former 

 being used for snuff and the latter for cigars and cheroots. 



ST. OMEE TOBACCO. 



Tobacco is an important product in France, and affords 

 the government an immense revenue. In the north of France 

 two varieties are cultivated, the Brazilian and the Mexican, 

 but the tobacco is unlike that grown in those countries. 

 Most of the tobacco of France is small and inferior to Havana 

 and Manilla. In the South of France tobacco is cultivated 

 to a considerable extent, but is of inferior quality, lacking 

 the rich flavor of the tobacco of Cuba. The cultivation is 

 permitted only in certain departments, and the cultivators 

 must use only the seed supplied to them by the officers of 

 the regie. This is selected with the greatest care, the kind 

 and quantity depending upon the nature of the land, the 

 soil being carefully analyzed, and cultivation prohibited in 

 soils which do not possess the constituents necessary for the 

 growth of good tobacco. These analyses also determine the 

 quantities and sorts of manure required to bring the land 

 into fit condition. Most of the seed used is the produce of 

 seed imported at various times from North America and 

 Cuba. 



The cultivation is most carefully watched, and the statistics 

 available concerning it are of the minutest kind. Not only 

 is the area of each field of tobacco accurately measured, but 

 each plant is noted down, and even each leaf on each plant 

 is accounted for. St. Omer is used chiefly for snuff, some- 

 times used with other kinds and is much esteemed by the 

 French who consider it among the best of tobaccos. 



HUNGAKIAN TOBACCO. 



This variety is attracting considerable attention, from the 

 fact that it is well adapted for the manufacture of cigars. 

 Like Connecticut seed leaf, the leaves are large and well 



