tern portion of the province of Prussia
proper) the cultivation is rather more extensive,
particularly near the town of Marienwerder; the tobacco,
however, is very inferior. The most important districts of
the province of Posen are those of Chodziesz and Meseritz.
In Pomerania, next to Brandenburg the most important
tobacco-growing province of the kingdom, the area of land
cultivated is very large. The principal districts are those
near Stettin. In Silesia the most important districts are
those around Breslau, Ratibor, and Oels. The principal
tobacco-growing province of Prussia is Brandenburg, and here
again, particularly the part of the government district of
Potsdam, which contains the towns of Neustadt, Eberswalde
and Prenzlau. Besides the districts mentioned, tobacco is
grown largely in that of Frankfort-on-the Oder. In the
province of Saxony the chief districts are those of Stendal,
Salzwedel, Nordhausen, Burg, and Wittenburg. Hanover, like
the other western provinces of the kingdom, produces a
superior quality of tobacco to that raised in the eastern
parts of Prussia--the most important district is that of
Munden. The chief tobacco-growing districts of Hesse-Nossau
are situated near the towns of Cassel and Hanau. In Rhenish
Prussia the plant is cultivated, particularly in the
neighborhood of Cleve, Emmerich, Coblenz, Creuznach, and
Saarbruck; the districts first mentioned produce a very
superior quality. The production of tobacco in Westphalia is
extremely small, while in the province of Schleswig-Holstein
the plant is not cultivated at all. In the account given it
will be seen that the tobacco plant holds an important place
among the products of Prussia, and although not as
extensively cultivated as formerly, has not been entirely
driven from the soil by other products which yield a larger
profit to the producer. The plant is cultivated in other
parts of Germany, especially in Bavaria, where large
quantities of tobacco are grown, particularly so in the
Bavarian Palatinate and in Franconia (viz., the districts
around Nuremberg and Erlangen). In the Kingdom of Saxony but
little tobacco is raised, as is also the case in Wurtemberg,
although the soil and climate in parts of this state are
said to be very favorable to the gr