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APPENDIX. 



(a) A Nursery 110 yards long and 22 yards wide will grow a suffi- 



cient number of healthy seedlings to plant a field of 12 acres. 



(b) For a Nursery of the foregoing size about two pounds of good, 



healthy seed should be sown, and if these do not grow, fresh 

 seed must be sown again. 



(c) On an acre of land 10,000 plants can be cultivated, but the ex- 



act number is 9,680 plants. One man should not attend to 

 more than the number of plants which can be grown on an 

 acre of land. 



(d) The number of plants that will give a quintal (100 lbs) of 



Tobacco cannot be exactly estimated, for it depends on the 

 state of the weather and the fertility of the soil. But in 

 general terms it may be said that if the soil is good and 

 the weather is favourable 1,000 or 1,500 plants will give a 

 quintal. 



(e) Should it rain whilst cuttiog is going on, the operation must 



be discontinued until the weather is again fine — as the leaf 

 must on no account be cut while wet. 



Tobacco should not be cut during rainy weather, as at 

 that time the suckers are growing freely and it would take 

 away the quality of the leaf, which is in measure regained 

 by succeeding dry weather. 



Betun or Wash. 



Take 51bs of old, strong Tobacco stalks and put into 2 or 2^ gal- 

 lons of water, and boil sufficiently to reduce the quantity of water to 

 about one third so as to obtain a strong well boiled infusion. The ves- 

 sel in which this infusion is made should be new and perfectly free 

 from grease. Take a clean barrel, fill with clear water, and put into it a 

 sufficient quantity of Tobacco-stalks, three quarters of which should be 

 of the former crop and one fourth of the last. Allow it to ferment for 

 four days, and on the fifth day, when it should be used, add as much of 

 the infusion to this as will darken it, and it may now be used. 



ADDITIONS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DEPARTMENT. 



LIBRARY. 



EUROPE. 



British Isles, 



British Museum, Annual Returus, 1898-99. [Director.] 



Botanical Magazine, September. [Purchased.] 



British Trade Journal, September. [Editor.] 



Bulletin, Kew Gardens, March — August. [Director. ] 



Chemist and Druggist, Aug. 12, 19, 26, Sept. 2. [Editor.] 



Garden, Aug. 12, 19, Sept. 2. [Purchased.] 



Gardener's Chronicle, Aug. 12, 19, 26, Sept. 2. [Purchased.] 



Journal of Botany, Aug., Sept, [Purchased.] 



Nature, Aug. 10, 17, 24, 31. [Purchased.] 



Pharmaceutical Journal, Aug. 12, 19, 26, Sept. 2. 



Produce World, Sept. [Editor.] 



