nd we
trust that when agricultural science is better studied
there, Englishmen will have the opportunity of testing the
value and importance of Syrian tobacco products."

Connor says of the tobacco fields of India:--

"In the Bombay Presidency tobacco is largely produced, and
its quality in such districts as Kaira and Khandesh is
superior. In 1871 there were nearly 43,000 acres of land
under tobacco in the presidency, the largest quantities
being grown in Kaira, Khandesh, Belgaum Sattara, Shalopoor,
and Poona. The trade is extensive. The exports of tobacco to
foreign countries amount to several million pounds annually.
Among foreign countries, Mauritius, Bourbon, and
neighboring places, not reckoned as part of British India,
take a large share of the exports. Bombay exports tobacco to
other Indian presidencies. Small quantities of the fine
Guzerat tobaccos find their way by rail into the
North-western Provinces. Numerous endeavors have for many
years past been made to improve the quality of Bombay
tobacco. In 1831 the Resident in the Persian Gulf sent to
the local Government a maund of seed of the 'very finest
tobacco grown in Persia,' and with it he sent some
observations on the mode of cultivating tobacco in the
neighborhood of Shiraz. In 1867 fifteen small packets of
genuine Shiraz tobacco were forwarded for trial in the
Bombay Presidency. Of the seed sown in Kolhopoor, about
eight or nine germinated, and the plants grew to a height of
five feet two inches; of these only four survived. There
were two varieties, one with oblong the other with circular
leaves.

[Illustration: Tobacco field in India.]

"Of the seeds sent to Kandesh, only a few germinated. All
the seed put down in the Victoria Gardens failed. That sent
to Sind, though said to have been carefully sown, also
failed to germinate. The Conservator of Forests had the
seeds sent him sown in beds, and the plants, when a few
inches in height, were transplanted into pots. They grew
with the greatest luxuriance, and produced abundance of
flowers and seed. Some of the seed was sent to the collector
of Kaira, who forwarded a sample of the tobacco grown from
it. The Conservator considered the produce very good, and
the secretary of the Agri-Horticultural Society pronou