380 TlMEHRI. 
The Committee desire to call attention to the fa6t that under the Adul- 
teration Aft an assistant is provided for, and they believe that help is 
tirgently required. They therefore passed the following resolution at 
their meeting of the 5th instant and direfted me to forward the same 
with my report : — 
" This Committee advise the Society to urge on the Government to 
carry out the provisions of the Adulteration A6t and provide assistance 
to Professor Harrison." 
I have the honour to be, 
Gentlemen, 
Your obedient Servant, 
JAS. GILLESPIE, 
Secretary Agricultural Committee. 
NOTE BY PROFESSOR HARRISON. 
To produce the Havannah aroma in order to make cigars similar to 
those of Havannah, it is sufficient to' cultivate tobacco of the Havannah 
kind in a climate analogous to that of Cuba and upon a soil similar to 
that of the Vuelta Abajo of Cuba and to submit it to certain fermenta- 
tions by the Cuban methods. 
Of these few conditions of success the choice of the soil is the most 
important. The soils which contain, like the best soils of Vuelta 
Abajo, ninety per cent of sand, six or seven per cent of clay, two or 
two and a half per cent of vegetable humus and a little potash, pro- 
duce the fine and perfumed tobaccos. Upon soils where the proportion 
of clay is increased to ten per cent, or more, like in the Partides, tobacco 
is stronger, that is to say it contains more nicotine, but it has not the 
same quality. 
Upon the soils which are clayey like those in the part of Cuba situ- 
ated to the east of Havannah and known under the names of Vuelta 
Cariba, the tobacco is bad. 
A soil sufficiently siliceous but poor in salts of potash produces a 
tobacco which is aromatic but which burns badly. 
(Louis Lephene, Report to the French Minister in Mexico, Annales 
de la Science Agronomique, P. 387, Tome I, 1887.) 
REPORTS ON RICE SAMPLES FROM R. S. MITCHELL, CALCUTTA. 
Plantn. Houston, 16th Novr., 1892. 
The only land available on this Estate is the bottoms of punt 
trenches, so the samples to grow on high land did not have suitable soil. 
