In Java, the residences of Rembang, Sourabaya, Samarang, Chinbou, and Tagal present districts suited for its culture. It has been carried on with success for a good many years in the residences of Treanger, Pakalongan, and Kedu, but only for the consumption of the interior, and of the Archipelago.
Celebes.—Tobacco is cultivated in Celebes, but merely in sufficient quantity for local consump tion. It is exclusively grown by the Bantik population ; the mode of preparation is the &WIC as in Java ; it is chopped very fine, and mostly flavoured with arrack.
The Japanese grow a good deal of tobacco for their own consumption, which is very considerable. They consider that from Sasma as better than that from Nagasaki, Sinday, etc. The worst comes. from the province of Tzyngaru ; it is strong, of a black colour, and has a disgusting. taste and smell. The tobacco from Sasma is, indeed, also strong, but it has an agreeable taste and smell, and is of a bright yellow colour. The tobacco from Nagasaki is very weak, in taste and smell perhaps the best, and of a bright brown colour. The tobacco from Sinday is very good. The Japanese manufacture the tobacco well, and persons who cannot use other tobacco can smoke that of Japan with pleasure.
China.—Tobacco seems to have been introduced into China from the west, by way of Japan or Manilla, during the 16th and 17th century, but is DOW grown in most of the Chinese provinces. The
species seem to be the Nicotiana fruticosa, and N. rustica, var. Chinensis. The Russians manu facture frotu it and from Mongolian tobacco large quantities of cigarettes. The tightly packed leaves are cut tip into very fino threads by means of planes, and, according to Lockhart, mixed with 60111C yellow ochre, arsenic, and other coinpounds. Dr. 'Williams says that the leaf is soinetiines soaked with a solution of opium. A tobacco of Lobelia and also coltsfoot tobacco aro sometimes stnokecl in China.
ustralia.—Tobacco is cultivated in New South Wales with much success. Australia produces a leaf equal to l'irginia or the most fertile parts of Kentucky, but the great difficulty is to extract the superabundant nitre, which causes a rank and disagreeable flavour. In Victoria the yield is generally large, but the scarcity of dew in some of the districts hinders the production of the best kinds. The crude kinds are obtained with ease.
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