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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 11, 8 September 1939, Page 16

HISTORIC "MYRTLE GROVE" Tobacco and Potatoes Introduced In the County of Cork; Ireland, Youghal Bay is a place every tourist to Ireland should visit, says Stephen Gwynn in his book The Charm 0f Ireland. Youghal Bay is an ideal watering place and good to stay in , with passable hotels. Above all, he continues, it is the place which has St. Mary S Abbey, 2 Collegiate Church founded by the great Earls 0f Desmond in 146 4. From the towers 0f this Abbey one gains a View of the beautiful town below, and just beneath, sheltered by old trees, you can see Myrtle Grove, an Eliza bethan house with mullioned windows and many gables, once the dwelling 0f the Wardens of Youghal. Sir Walter Raleigh was also for many years the owner of Myrtle Grove and in its VG beautiful gardens he is said to have smoked the first tobacco ever to be brought to Ireland And most interest- ing, too, is the fact that in this old- world garden in which Myrtle Grove stands, Raleigh planted the first Irish potato, and he afterwards gave the Very Good ? tubers to an ancestor of the present Lord Southwell by whom they were spread throughout the province of Superlatively good for Munster; and later throughout the length and breadth of Ireland. if you could see the care A beautiful old-world garden that is taken to ensure The richly perfumed yellow wall that only the finest of fine flowers which Raleigh brought to Ire land from Azores and the Affanae Islands are still found where he Virginia tobacco goes into planted them in 6 6 Myrtle Grove. Some cedars and four venerable yew trees, whose branches have grown and Myrtle Grove, you too intermingled into a sort of summer house thatch are pointed out to visi would agree that the qual- tors to Myrtle Grove as having sheltered Raleigh when he first ity of Myrtle Grove is a8 smoked tobacco in his Youghal garden. Tobacco and potatoes trees and flowers-_were the boons to mankind perfect as the convenience which Raleigh brought back from across the Western Seas To-day of its 1-02. tin tobacco has been improved far beyond Raleigh'$ early conceptions of good for lld. tobacco, but the experiments he car- ried out in his famous home Myrtle Grove ~paved the way for modern scientists, who have produced such a perfect tobacco as 76 6 Myrtle Grove the chosen tobacco 0f & host of New Zealand smokers. Worthy of its name Any discriminating tobacco smoker will appreciate at once that such & cher- ished blend as Myrtle Grove is 2-02. worthy of the honoured name it pos c sesses: For only rich matured Vir ouce Tins are ginia tobacco is used in this blending which gives Myrtle Grove that extra Gn 1/10 pure appeal that fragrance and gentle Tm; SGove rich Virginia Leaf smoothness which makes Myrtle Grove 'iMnele' tobacco famous. MG IS WMYRTLE (RoV RORE ToBAcCo VRSINA