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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 7, 11 August 1939, Page 16

SIR WALTER RALEIGH Navigator; Statesman and Tobacco Fancier Among his many interests Sir Walter Raleigh included & love for experiment- ing with tobacco It is said that his special blend was famous wherever he went, in the court; on the high seas, and no doubt even at Myrtle Grove ~his Irish home in the County 0f Cork, Ireland. Samples of tobacco leaf were shipped to him from the majority of the tobacco growing colonies, and it was not unusual to find him employing his spare time in the making of better tobacco for the enjoyment of himself and his associates. It is indeed a ftting OKI tnabute "teatcheheakeesofy' "Nyrtle tle Grorveat " tobacco have chosen to perpetuate the name 0f his Irish home in the minds of discriminating British smokers descendants of those men who bene fited by his early interest in more FOR widespread use of tobacco_ Queen Elizabeth'$ Wager On one of his frequent visits to the Royal Palace, Raleigh, who was parti cularly interested in the new smoking R habit in England, made a quaint (if scientifically inaccurate ) experiment. V: He made 8 wager with Queen Elizabeth that he could weigh the smoke pro duced from a given quantity of tobacco. Raleigh conducted the experiment_~not by trapping and weighing the smoke as MYRTLE GROVE, smooth the Queen expected, but by weighing the tobacco before it was smoked and smoking and smooth rolling: then weighing the remaining ash. He is the only cigarette tobacco claimed that the difference amounted to the weight of the smoke, an explana in l-02. tins at Ild small tion which Queen Elizabeth accepted: enough to fit snugly in the England'$ First Tobacco Leaf vest pocket large enough Raleigh's interest in tobacco extended for beyond the Court, for in 1583 the good a packet ship Golden Hind left England with of papers. an expedition to the New World, led by Raleigh'8 kinsman, Sir Humphrey Gilbert. But Raleigh himself was the original organiser of this expedition which brought back the first tobacco leaf to be smoked in England. Q0 Worthy Of Its Name Any discriminating tobacco smoker will appreciate at once that such & cherished 2-02. blend as Myrtle Grove i8 worthy of the honoured name it possesses: For Tins are only rich matured Virginia tobacco is ownce c used in this blending which gives 1/11 pure Myrtle Grove that extra appeal that T Gn rich Virginia Leaf fragrance and gentle smoothness which 'imntle SIove makes Myrtle Grove Tobacco famous: Ut.i24 L HRILE GROVE PURE ToBACCo VER@ ENEA