FRENCH TOBACCO. 399 
Holland since its first introduction, with complete success, 
producing a variety for snuff unrivaled by any other tobacco 
grown in Europe. 
In color Dutch tobacco is both dark and light; the former 
being used for snuff and the latter for cigars and cheroots, 
ST. OMER TOBACCO. 
Tobacco is an important product in France, and affords 
the government an immense revenue. In the north of France 
two varieties are cultivated, the Brazilian and the Mexican, 
but the tobacco is unlike that grown in those countries. 
Most of the tobacco of France is small and inferior to Havana 
and Manilla. In the South of France tobacco is cultivated 
to a considerable extent, but is of inferior quality, lacking 
the rich flavor of the tobacco of Cuba. The cultivation is 
permitted only in certain departments, and the cultivators 
must use only the seed supplied to them by the officers of 
the regie. This is selected with the greatest care, the kind 
and quantity depending upon the nature of the land, the 
soil being carefully analyzed, and cultivation prohibited in 
soils which do not possess the constituents necessary for the 
growth of good tobacco. These analyses also determine the 
quantities and sorts of manure required to bring the land 
into fit condition. Most of the seed used is the produce of 
seed imported at various times from North America and 
Cuba. 
The cultivation is most carefully watched, and the statistics 
available concerning it are of the minutest kind. Not only 
is the area of each field of tobacco accurately measured, but 
each plant is noted down, and even each leaf on each plant 
is accounted for. St. Omer is used chiefly for snuff, some- 
times used with other kinds and is much esteemed by the 
French who consider it among the best of tobaccos. 
HUNGARIAN TOBACCO. 
This variety is attracting considerable attention, from the 
fact that it is well adapted for the manufacture of cigars. 
Like Connecticut seed leaf, the leaves are large and well 
