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is once more flooded. Next day when the water has ‘vell subsided, and 
the mud is beginning == dry up, the plants are pulled up and thrown 
into the fur rows, wher they are left for about 24 hours. Before 
sunrise the following morning they are collected and removed into a 
shady place, e.g., into tents, where the leaves are separated from the 
stalks as rapidly as possible before drying takes place. A pit about 
two yards square is made, and the leaves, arranged in layers, the stalks 
being placed on the top as against sun, are y 
rodden in. Ten fifteen days later they are taken out and spread 
over the floor of a store-room, where they are well turned over for 
two or three days, and in this manner carefully dried. They are then 
closely packed into canvas bags, which are generally cased over with 
skins for protection during transport. Tobacco seeds of cold countries 
will grow in hot climates, and vice versi. ‘The points most to be 
considered are the water, soil, and climate. Та all good tanbaku districts 
either the water or the soil, or both, are brackish or salt (shir). The 
peculiar aroma most appreciated by Persians is only to be obtained by 
growth in warm climates. The produce from the non-brackish districts 
is exported and not relished for home consumption. itu 
tobacco, and ¢anbaku, are two different plants, but the cultivation i is the 
sam Tatum can never — nas or tanbaku, tütün a 
good year 10 paimans of land (one paiman = 100 squ are беса, will 
yield one thousand (1,000) to twelve ара (1,200) mands of 
tanbaku. 
(Signed) Нарев Ам KHAN of Surnaz. 
Shiraz, April, 1890. 
[Enclosure II.] 
Mr. Wright, late head gardener to his Imperial Highness the Zil-é- 
Sultan, considers that por is the ordinary tobacco plant, and that 
Shah’s zanbaku, which is of a specially fine quality, grows in a very 
— district known as Hakiin or Hakan, at the foot ‘of th the аай 
some 14 miles from Shiraz. This ground is irrigated by a stream of 
ver = Mitten: water (Àb é shür) and the natives Me ha superiority 
of this particular sample entirely to that cause. Cotton and grapes grow 
in the garden of the —ww at Tehran, where the water is sweet, 
produced melons entirely гона, of their native distinctive flavour. The 
inhabitants of the district are well aware that the same melons cannot be 
produced elsewhere, and attribute this circumstance entirely to the water, 
which is so strongly impregnated with salt as to be undrinkable. After 
the tanbaku is packed in the skins no fermentation takes place. As 
ribs, and the snuffy dust being rejected. The preparation of the ghkalian 
