. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 938 PRACTICE OP AGRICULTURE. Part III. Virginia the- host tobacco i grown ill a rich loamy, but rather light soil, which hasbeen newly taken into cultivation, la Alsace, where we have seen stronger tobacco ofthe Virginian kind than in any other part of France or in Germany, the soil is a brownloam, rather light than heavy, such as would grow excelle
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. 938 PRACTICE OP AGRICULTURE. Part III. Virginia the- host tobacco i grown ill a rich loamy, but rather light soil, which hasbeen newly taken into cultivation, la Alsace, where we have seen stronger tobacco ofthe Virginian kind than in any other part of France or in Germany, the soil is a brownloam, rather light than heavy, such as would grow excellent potatoes and turnips, andwhich has been for an unknown period under the plough. Wherever potatoes or turnipsmay be cultivated, there we think tobacco may be grown. 6133. Climate. As it is beyond a doubt that the best tobacco is produced in countrieswithin the tropics, it is evident that it cannot be worth culture in Britain in situationsnot naturally mild or warm. Tobacco can never be worth growing in situations muchabove the IcmI of the sea, nor on wet springy soils or northern exposures. 6134. Culture> We shall notice in succession the practice in the West Indies, Vir-ginia, and Maryland, in Alsatia, in Holland, in the South of Fran
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