SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S ANCESTRAL HOME Early Interest in Tobacco It will interest many smokers to learn that Sir Walter Raleigh was directly responsible for a name that will last as long as fine tobacco is produced. For Myrtle Grove Tobacco takes its name from 66 Myrtle Grove the residence of Sir Walter Raleigh at Youghal, Ireland and it was So Nb named as a tribute to the memory of this most daring navigator and fav- ourite courtier and diplomat: Queen Elizabeth' $ Wager Jdot# On one of his frequent visits to the Royal Palace, Raleigh, who was particularly interested in the new smoking habit in England, made a MG axpcrimert. (if #iientiadelly made a iaaeurateh Queen Elizabeth that he could weigh the smoke produced from a given quantity of tobacco. Raleigh con- NO BULGES in ducted the experiment ~not by trap- your ping and weighing the smoke as the pockets when you Queen expected, but by weightng the tobacco before it was smoked and carry a one ounce tin of then weighing the remaining ash; He MYRTLE GROVE sized claimed that the difference amounted to the weight of the smoke an ex- to fit your planation which Queen Flizabeth accepted. vest pocket England' $ First Tobacco Leaf yet large enough Raleigh's interest in tobacco ex- for a packet of papers. tended beyond the Court; for in 1583 Air-proof, too, the good ship 66 Golden Hind 2 left England with an expedition to the for freshness. New World, led by Raleigh's kins- man, 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: Worthy of its Name Any discriminating tobacco smoker will appreciate at once that such a cherished blend as Myrtle Grove is worthy of the honoured name it pos 2-02. sesses: For only rich matured Vir- Tins are ginia tobacco is used in this blending ounce c which gives Myrtle Grove that extra 1/10 . pure appeal-that fragance and gentle Tm Gn Sove rich Virginia Leaf smoothness which makes Myrtle 'ilntle 5 Grove Tobacco famous. HARTLE GROVE PURE VTR GHNIA ToBACC@
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 13, 22 September 1939, Page 16
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