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and neighboring places, not reckoned as part of British 
India, take a large share of the exports. Bouibay exports 
tobacco to other Indian presidencies. Small quantities of 
the fine Guzerat tobaccos find their way by rail into 
the North-western Provinces. Numerous endeavors have 
for many years past been made to improve the quality 
of Bombay tobacco. In 1831 the Resident in the Persian 
Gulf sent to the local Government a maund of seed of the 
‘very finest tobacco grown in Persia,’ and with it he sent 
some observations on the mode of cultivating tobacco in the 
neighborhood of Shiraz. In 1867 fifteen sinall packets of 
genuine Shiraz tobacco were forwarded for trial in the Bom- 
bay Presidency. Of the seed sown in Kolhopoor, about eight 
or nine germinated, and the plants grew to a height of five 
feet two inches; of these only four survived. There were 
two varieties, one with oblong the other with circular leaves. 
Of the seeds sent to Kandesh, only a few germinated. 
All the seed put down in the Victoria Gardens failed. 
That sent to Sind, though said to have been carefully 
sown, also failed to germinate. The Conservator of Forests 
had the seeds sent him sown in beds, and the plants, when a 
few inches in height, were transplanted into pots. They 
grew with the greatest luxuriance, and produced abundance 
* of flowers and 
seed. Some of 
the seed was 
sent to the col- 
lector of Kaira, 
who forwarded 
asample of the 
tobacco grown 
from it. The 
Conservator con- 
, sidered the prod- 
uce very good, 
and the secre- 
_ tary of the Agri- 
Horticultural 
{Ge Society pro- 
RS raise “as nounced it ‘of a 
superior kind.’ 
~ The flavor was 
exceedingly fine, but it had not been allowed to come to matu- 
rity, henee i was thin and shriveled. It had also been spoilt 
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