one crop was grown in New Zealand in one year, of
2,420 lbs. to an acre, at 3d. per pound, (which is about half the
market price of a fair sample of tobacco in bond,) it would amount to
L30 5s. per acre.

Three rows of Indian corn are planted outside the tobacco plants to
shelter them from the wind. In order to save seed, a few plants are
allowed to flower. The Virginian tobacco is the largest; it is known
by a pink flower; the _Nicotiana rustica_ (common green) has a yellow
flower.

A planter in Northern Australia furnishes the following directions:--

The land selected for the growth of tobacco ought to be of the most
fertile description, of a friable description, and upon which no
water can rest within eighteen inches of the surface. Newly cleared
brush lands of this nature are the most prolific; upon such, after
good tillage, put the plants about four feet or more apart, in rows,
and five feet six inches asunder. In interior or old ground, plant
proportionately closer. Before topping or nipping off the head, all
the lower leaves (that is such as may touch the ground) ought to be
broken off, leaving only from five to seven for the crop, which will
yield a greater weight and be of a superior quality than if double
that number were left. When ripe, a dry and cloudy day should be
selected to cut it, as the sun destroys its quality after cutting.
It ought then to lie sufficiently long upon the ground so as to welt
before carting to the sheds, hanging up each stalk next morning so
as not to touch its fellow.

The drying sheds ought to be built upon an elevated or dry spot,
with a hoarded flour of rough split stuff, fifteen or eighteen
inches from the ground, with apertures as windows to admit or to
exclude the external atmosphere. In damp weather close all the doors
and windows, also every night; in contrary weather open all.

In these drying houses the stalks should remain suspended until the
vegetable moisture is entirely evaporated, so that on a dry day the
stems of the leaves will break like a glass pipe, and the finer
parts crumble into snuff upon compression; after which, in humid
weather, they will become quite pliable; then strip the leaves off
the stems, make them up into hands, and pack them tightly into a
close bin: when full, cover it with boards and old bagged stuff,
upon which place heavy wei