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luvial land containing a portion of sand, is, j3erhaj)s, 

 the very best for tobacco. The field should be well 

 prepared dui-ing- the preceding winter by repeated 

 plonghings, digging, or trenching if on a small scale, 

 and be well sheltered, with a good aspect. The 

 manure should be a compost, three parts of it rich 

 dung and one part good earth or road scrapings, well 

 pulverized and lilended together. The dung of cities, 

 even at a verv high price, is far preferable to any farm 

 yard manure. In the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Dublin and other large cities, therefore, tobacco may 

 be grown with much comparative advanta<:e. If there 

 be a deficiency in either the quantity or the qxudity of 

 the manure, sow potatoes or turnips which may groM- 

 luxuriantly where tobacco would, unquestionably, 

 fail. The time and manner of planting out, are as 

 follows: — early in May, and not later than June, form 

 your drills as if for potatoes, hut shallow, thirty 

 inches apart, and at (Hstances of eighteen inches 

 set the plants, previously depositing for each a very 

 large shovel fiill of the compost, in which the plants 

 are to stand, draw back with hoes and settle evenly 

 the earth in the line of plants which was displaced 

 Iiy the plough, thus leaving furrows between the 

 rows, to keep the roots dry; water the plants «.* they 

 are put doum, and if the weather be dry (and plant- 

 ing in dry weather is essential to the success of the 

 crop) water once or twice more, if the plants appear 

 to (b'oop. 



A covering during the scorching heat of the sun, 

 with caldjage leaves, by day, will be found useful. If 

 the weather is temperate no covering -will be neces- 

 sary. The subsequent care of the growing plants 

 consists in relieving them from slugs and weeds, 

 tightening them when shaken by the wind, lightly 

 earthing them as the stem advances and keeping the 

 soil loose by constantly stirring it with a hoe in the 

 intervals, but not so as to touch the roots; \vith 

 every care, however, several of the plants may fail 



