ITS NATIVE PLACES. 5 



a large trade in its growth. France cultivates it also ; 

 but the larger quantity is grown in Germany : the time 

 of harvesting the leaves is an interesting period for 

 a stranger to visit the villages, which put on a new 

 aspect as every house and barn is hung all over with 

 the drying leaves. The European tobacco is less 

 powerful in flavour than the American ; and the native 

 tobacco of Germany may be smoked to a continuous 

 extent, which would be dangerous or disagreeable if 

 the New World tobacco were used. Temperate cli- 

 mates, with a deep rich soil ranging from forty to fifty 

 degrees of latitude, are said to be the most favourable 

 for its free development. It is grown from seed ; but 

 frost is particularly injurious to young plants : the 

 lower leaves are sometimes gathered as they ripen or 

 begin to change colour, an operation performed at 

 intervals till all are removed ; or the growth of the 

 plant is arrested by cutting off the top, to prevent the 

 formation of flowers and seed, and enlarge the growth 

 of leaves ; or the plant is cut down entire, dried in the 

 sun, and the leaves separated afterwards. 



Mr. Prescott * thus enumerates the principal places 

 from which tobacco finds its way into the English 

 Market, and the peculiar uses to which each kind is 

 devoted : — 



" Europe. — Germany, Holland, and Salonica in 

 European Turkey. 



* Of the Inland Revenue department, in his valuable work on 

 Tobacco, and its Adulterations, recently published by Van Voorst. 



