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pipe tobacco is in every case the produ6l of a milder 
climate than that from which cigar sorts are procured, 
but possibly some change in the mode of manufacture 
would lessen any difference which might be found to 
exist between the native and imported kinds. 
The tobacco sent from this colony was not designed for 
market, but was exhibited more as a specimen of what 
was produced and used by the Indians of the country. 
It is gratifying to find that, nevertheless, it was reported 
to be of good quality and carefully cured. Its com- 
pressed state rendered it unfit for the British market. 
Dr. WATT concludes with a u general note" of some 
value. He says that when seed is imported, a mongrel 
crop is produced, in the first season, partly flavoured with 
the soil. In the second year the crop is truer to the 
seed. Leaves keep in better preservation when ripe. 
They should not be green nor dead, nor should they be 
left open, but pressed to preserve the flavour. Stalks 
should never be sent with tobacco. 
Dr. Paul's report on DRUGS, CHEMICALS, AND 
PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTS deals with cin- 
chona, which was introduced into Jamaica as an experi- 
ment by Government in 1866, and is now cultivated to 
the extent of 150 acres. Ceylon is the chief source of 
this valuable bark, from which quinine is extra6led, and 
in each of the years 1884 and 1885, exported 11,000,000 
lbs. Bebeerine at one time was proposed as a cheaper 
substitute, and greenheart bark from which it is obtained, 
attained some value ; but quinine is now produced at a 
price which prevents the necessity of employing any 
substitute. 
Some of our Guiana Exhibits, such as quassia, copaiba, 
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