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THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. 



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'«%, B.l D,raD Tu,i;i ' s een «raJ Seed Shop, 1G, Pulteuey- 

 --The following^re now sending 



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1 MlUSlAS^fine 1 ^ letecM^tT 



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' HENHOUSE PLANTS": 50 



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JOHN H; 



HAYES, Florist, Farnl 



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r ECTURES ON HORTICULTURE.. 



arfte muttttwvg Cftrmticte 



SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1849. 



three years since, a Committee of the 

 House of Lords complained of the legal prevent] 



ion, as being a burthen affecting 

 real property. The absurdity of this compla' ' 



pointed out at the time, 

 the public had become too intelligent 

 in doing " 



fitably in a totally differei ' 



rail ask for Acts of Parlia- 



growSugar, Indigo, and Cotton 



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: <l tenantry, that they ha 



i plague for a blessing. For the proofs c 



fer our readers to the place above quoted 



, however, that the Duke of Richmond ha 



. bringing before the Royal 





i Tobacco crop is 

 50/. an acre, subject to expenses, which he 

 estimates, upon the authority of some Irish grower, 

 >unt to from 18?. to 30/. The process by 

 this result is arrived at is worth an analysis, 

 first place, Mr. Little states that his Tobacco 

 was .>v/v fini ; by this lie mast mean fine looking, 

 or he can have no knowledge of what constitutes 

 fine Tobacco. It happens that we have in our pos- 

 session a sample of his produce, forwarded by him- 

 self, and we are obliged to say that it is of the worst 

 quality : we doubt whether it would bear any price 

 hatever in the market. And thus it always must be 

 ith English grown Tobacco, so that a correspondent 

 ho complains to us that he has repeatedly planted 

 without ever obtaining " the right sort, may con- 

 ,lo himself with the reflection that the right sort 

 not produceabk in England. He^may grow ' 



a Tobacco "hardly inferior to that of Cuba, 

 carefully prepared for the manufai 

 " it Tobacco not more than ljd. 



ned. Nevertheless, Mr. Lit ilk 



Gd. per lb. for the best part, and 



Tii, 



of his calculation consists in 



• that a Tobacco crop will yield 2625 lbs. 

 r acre. But there is no reason to 

 ny such quantity can be obtained. It 

 Van Aelbrook estimates an average 

 above 3000 lbs., but this is contra- 

 luthority. According to Schwertz 

 the growers in Alsace do not obtain more than 15 

 quintals per hectare, or about 600 lbs. per acre, and 

 the Prussian crop is not estimated at more than 

 150 lbs. Perhaps the first ol th< > <}« mtitit . ■• • . 

 ntswhat is marketable, and the second what is 

 itained from the land, whether marketable or not. 

 et us next examine the cost of obtaining this crop. 

 The Duke of Richmond's correspondent does not 



mself pretend to ; 

 the question. Hi 



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" We are curious to 



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probably means that his crop of Tobacco. 



. d at Chelsea 

 st year, Ik; ij he will ; 

 the experience of Tobacco-grow rah 



matter concern: Th e e-ti- 



. Lnri.i'."s Irish < 







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assured tha 

 Ir. Porter, who is rather l)etter 

 that " Tobacco husbandry calls for 

 weeding and earthing up the 



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me cosi oi laoour is x,a. 



bably much more, wherever labour beai - 



English value. 



These amendments of Mr. Lira 



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 account will really stand thus : 



Cost of labour, rent, taxes, &c. (Irish esti- £ s. d. 

 Manure (Flemish estimate) 29 



Return from < 



£37 17 3 



be altered if a 

 Tobacco from 



ai ional enough 

 It would be as : 



passed for the pro- 



English Government c 

 to take such a course. 



t of Cotton cultivation in Great 

 prohibiting the importation of foreign Cotton. 



What the Government should do, for the sake of 

 ie, as much as for the pecuniary advantage of 

 the public, is, to reduce the duties on Tobacco, so> 

 render smuggling a ruinous trade. That in 

 •anch of the Tobacco duties the frauds and 

 smuggling are enormous, in consequence of an ex- 

 -agant duty of 9s. Gd. per lb., is notorious. We 

 allude to cigars ; and as means exist of showing to 

 ,n extent the frauds in this article of trade 

 necessarily be, we take it for the sake of 

 illustration. 



The quantity of foreign cigars which pay duty in 



is country may be taken to average from 25 to 



anally.* But Cuba alo 



S rte to 



British \ 



:ported to this country cigars to the value of 477/. ; 

 1^4:! some are reported among export ~ 



lich we have not remarked, are mentioned as 



ring been sent from other places. 



In the returns of exports from most cigar making 



ion is made between those sent 



(ireat Britain and elsewhere, but it appears that 



• g places was 



as follows : 



Venezuela ... 

 annually about I 



167,692 

 tries alone export 

 cigars, reckoning 



would seem that Cuba alone sends 

 fully as many as pay duty, and that none 

 other part of the world. 1 



)0 or 800 millions exported 



is publicly , 



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