Ji TOBACCO GROWING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



of this country is well adapted to the cultiva- 

 tion of this plant, and that the present state of 

 agriculture being far from satisfactory, it has 

 become the duty of the Government, and the 

 interest of the people, to see that the old re- 

 strictive Acts of Charles II. and George III. be 

 repealed or amended to meet the new conditions 

 "which have arisen in our Empire and in the 

 United Kingdom itself. 



The public is, at present, in extreme ignorance 

 on the subject of tobacco. 



Most people imagine that the weed they so 

 much cherish comes from some tropical island, 

 or from some exceedingly hot State of America, 

 and that no other part of the world is able to 

 supply them with this luxury. Instead of 

 ■which, Holland, Hungary, Germany, and France 

 send us annually large supplies of tobacco ; and 

 in England, Scotland, and Ireland tobacco was 

 successfully grown before the law stepped in 

 and put an end to the practice. 



De Coin, a tobacco planter, observes : — " The 

 people of those colonies are very defective, 

 somehow or somewhere, in their systems of 

 economy, who rely upon importation from an 

 opposite or antipodal part of the world for a 

 costly material, which they might raise within 

 one hundred yards of their own bedrooms." 



