WHY IT SHOULD BE GEOWN. 3 



Jonathan Gamer, in his celebrated treatise on 

 growing tobacco in this country, significantly 

 observes : — 



" When the very great profits, arising to the 

 planter, from, every acre of tobacco, come to be 

 known (they will appear chimerical if I inform 

 my readers to what they amount), I doubt not 

 but that tobacco will be considered as the most 

 valuable branch of aginculture which can be 

 attended to." 



But before the public, or at least that ignorant 

 majority to whom allusion has been made, can 

 be taught to consider the above view of the case 

 as applicable to England and Ireland, they must 

 be led step by step, from country to country, 

 and from evidence to proof, in order to realise 

 that tobacco does flourish abundantly in Europe, 

 has floui'ished in the British Isles, and will 

 flourish again, as far as climate and soil are 

 concerned — these two essentials being, perhaps, 

 better suited to its safe development in tem- 

 perate than in tropical countries. 



To quote Brodigan, who grew tobacco in Ire- 

 land more than fifty years ago, and wrote a 

 valuable treatise on the subject, wherein he 

 says, with regard to climate : " It is well known 

 that, as we approach the tropics, the calamities 

 to which vegetation is subject increase. In our 

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