

TOBACCO GROWING 



IN 



GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 



WHY IT SHOULD BE GROWN. 



" It was Bot many years," wrote Blythe, in 

 1649, " since the famous city of London peti- 

 tioned the Parliament of England against two 

 annsancies or offensive commodities, which were 

 likely to come into great use and esteem ; and 

 that was J^Tewcastle coal, in regard of theil* 

 stench, etc., and hops, in regard they would 

 spoyle the taste of drink and endanger the 

 people." 



It is now a great many years since the above 

 was wi'itten, and the petition of the famous city 

 of London falls flatly ridiculous on modern ears. 

 We hope to show, in the following pages, that 

 all former reasons, prohibitive of the growth of 

 tobacco in the British Isles, are now equally 

 obsolete and inapplicable, also that the climate 



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