TOBACCO COLOUR IN ENGLAND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1413, 22 November 1886, Page 3

TOBACCO COLOUR IN ENGLAND.

A “London Cornsp indent” write*: — “ I have been down in Norfolk, where I have seen a carious crop growing —d growing well, too One knows it abroad —the large full leaves, the tall, graceful spike and the delioata bloom ; but h*re la England it has hitherto been confined to botanical gardens of to nsa for foliage purposes It is tho tobacco plant. lo Kent, also, it has been largely cultivated —of course in conformity wkb the reo-n t Government permission—and there, to , I hear, the crop is good and forward, Thia new harvest will bs cut in a ftyf days, and, I suppose, long before Christmas Englishmen will be smoking some genuine home-grown tobacco. To fastidious smekere tbe prospect will not be altogether a gratifying one. The English cigar is not p -polar. Bat this will bo a cigar produced uuder wholly different conditions. It may be bettor, or it may be worse. It certainty ought to be cheaper. The English cigar is made of leaves grown abroad and shipped over here, and then made up in London or Bristol. It is said that tho passage over tho sea ruins the fl vor. There is no reason why English-grown cLars should rot be just as good as German It is not, certainly, a v> ry high standard Perhaps the future of this industry may depend upon how the present crop is got in and treated, if we want to make this a success, and to create a golden pos ib lity fir the rlepreared fatmer, we must make our fi at atart a good one. Apparently the raw material ia excellent. The manufacture must ba gO’d, too.” “ Gardening Illustrated ”■