Show IRISH TOBACCO WELL LIKED soothing weed can be grown there with john redmond s recent plea for the legalization of tobacco culture in ire land recalls the fact that it was per there until 1830 though forbid den in england and scotland wex ford tobacco was then so highly es teemed that it price was three times as great as the virginian leaf the rapid extension of the culture more than a thousand acres being planed with tobacco led to its prohibition in 1830 TV enty years ago gladstone ex pressed his dissatisfaction with the veto and offered to remove it if a scheme were produced tor the callec tion of the duty so that the revenue might not suffer two years ago an official experiment was made in meath an acre of land yielding 1700 pounds of serviceable tobacco this irish tobacco it is said was interior to american leaf but this is largely considered a matter of curing even australian grown tobacco was a rank failure until the british government engaged an american expert to in and advise the planters |