10 TOBACCO GROWING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



lected for this purpose may either be laid on 

 the plants before they are gathered or during 

 the time of cure, as on the article of malt .... 

 which would probably, at no distant period, 

 amount to as much as was heretofore received on 

 imported tobacco," — he was writing, of course, 

 before the duty on hops was removed. 



Three-fourths of the demand for tobacco in 

 this country is for shag or common roll, so that, 

 even if the finer kinds could not be grown here, 

 still a very large proportion of the trade would 

 be kept in our hands ; but on this subject Carver 

 again remarks, — and it may be observed that he 

 was a planter himself : — 



" The crops that I have reason to believe may 

 be raised in England will greatly exceed in flavour 

 and efficacy any that is imported from the southern 

 colonies : for, though northern climates require 

 far more care and exactness to cultivate and 

 bring tobacco to a proper state of maturity than 

 warmer latitudes, yet this tardiness of gi'owth 

 tends to impregnate the plants with a greater 

 quantity of salts, and consequently of that 

 aromatic flavour for which it is prized, than is to 

 be found in the produce of hotter climes, where 

 it is brought to a state of perfection from the 

 seed in half the time required in colder regions." 



The following cxtraot is from VVc Ih'iJy Tele- 



