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Virginia leaf  - - - - 5°4 per cent. 
» another sample  - - 7:2 » 
another Mpk - « 9*8 » 
Bright sar - 10°6 $5 
another plè E ure VE » 
5:2 
another sample -1 
It will thus be seen that whilst the oriental tobaccos contain ony a a 
small quantity, the “percentage in some of the Virginian is surprisingly 
high. The presence of so large an amount of saccharine matter was so 
unexpected that I thought it desirable to repeat the e in 2 
case with three different lots from the same tobacco; but this only 
served to confirm the — results, the numbers obtained varying only 
with one half per cen 
all appearance the quality of the kind of tobaccos under examina- 
tion coincides with the percentage of saccharine matter, for those 
which had been pointed out as the better sorts contained the larger 
quant ity. 
It né that the best Mene of the bright yellow Virginian is 
characterised by a uniform bright AT A e and by its well 
de veloped, üüscally large leaves, which a or less entire, and 
manufacturers. It becomes therefore quite possible, after a little 
practice, to select with eomparative ease the kinds of tobaccos which 
contain a high percentage of saccharine matter. 
The oriental tobaccos which I examined were not of a high class, — 
as I was unable to obtain samples of the better kinds, I am not i 
a position to state m these tobaccos ever contain as much AE 
matter as the Virg 
The Algerian T Kentucky leaf, which were found to be free on 
saccharine matter, cannot be strictly classed with so-called sun-dried 
tobaccos, for although of a light colour they were of a distinctly different 
tint, verging on brown, and this may be cousidered as an indication that 
they were not prepared or cured by the same process as the bright 
Virginian. 
The leaves of growing tobacco plants which I received from Kew were 
eollected at the end of August and the beginning of S AE MET. and as I 
was then absent from town they were carefully dried in the sun. The 
samples were but small, consisting of a few leaves of each m Their 
colour was a faded green and not like that of tobacco. 
re were in all ten sorts or varieties of the two rim species 
Nicotiana Tabacum aid Nicotiana rustica, the former being the one 
chiefly cultivated in America, whilst the latter seems to furnish most of 
the oriental tobace 
It may te sufficient for the present purpose to state that in all these 
specimens the presence of saccharine matter was indicated, but very 
different amounts, as will be seen from the followiug list :— 
Nicotiana — var. rustica E - 1:5 per cent. 
Shiraz tobac - - = 4'6 ğ 
N. rustica - B - - 4°0 » 
. Tabacum, var. virginiana - - 2:3 » 
Maryland tobacco - - . 0:0 29 
Nicotiana Tabacum - - - - 6:3 j 
hilsa tobacco - - 3°5 » 
N. haere var. atinedke - - & 42. —y 
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