4 TOBACCO GROWING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



uniform climate, exempt from those devastating 

 hurricanes, hailstorms, inundations, and perio- 

 dical gales, which in a few moments destroy the 

 hopes of the planter," etc., he continues to enu- 

 merate the diseases and injuries to which the 

 plant is subject in Virginia, i.e., " wormholes, 

 ripeshot or sunburnt, moonbumt, houseburnt, 

 stunted by growth, torn by storms of hail or 

 wind, injured or killed by frost," while in the 

 British Isles, except for an occasional gale or 

 untimely frost, we are almost exempt from those 

 dangers. 



Dutour, in his Nouveau Cour d' Agriculture, 



" To prevent the use of this plant, which 

 Providence has suited to the growth of almost 

 every climate, is to reject the bounty of Nature, 

 and to oppress the forlorn and the poor." And 

 when it is further shown, not only in what 

 countries of America and Europe tobacco thrives 

 and gives rise to great industries, but also that 

 it has thriven in this country and promised to 

 secure equal advantages to us, it is to be hoped 

 all prejudice will be overcome, whether produced 

 by greed of gain in the Government on one hand, 

 or the difficulty of leaving a groove, and the 

 fear of novelty and experiment, on the other. 



What we demand is a change in the laws 



