Weekly national intelligencer., 1853-03-26
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
roBAcoo-Irs CULTURE IN FRANCE.

On the 18th of December last wepublshed an
article from Paris correspondent relating to the
extension of the culture of Tobacco in the French
possessions of Africa Since that time the same
writer has furnished some additional information
and statistics ON the subject of the cultivation of
Tobacco in France, generally, which we avail our
selves of the space at our disposal to-day to place
before our readers:
Tobacco discovered in America by the Spanards about
the middle of the sixteenth century, introduced into
France by ANDRE THEvET in the year 1866 Its boani
cal name Nicotaia 7o6aeum is derived from JIAS Nj
cor who French Ambassador represented Francis H.
at the port of Portugal Having received at Lisbon, in
1910, seeds of the tobacco plant, he presented
Of them the year to the grand Prior tnd a
terwards Chatherne of Medcis. Under the patron
age of the Court, the plant promptly held in high
esteem and received the name Of Ncotiane which bo
tansts have retained. Another popular designation of
the new herb at that epoch pea the by which
il was known TO aborigines Of Brazil nearly resembling
pety the of the plant in Paraguay previous
to the arrival of the Spaniards.
While upon the name by which tobacco has been in
former times known in France let exhaust at once
ny whole learning upon the subject 1t called grand
Por's herb and the Mdicis plant Queens plant from
those great personages TO whom Moor presented
the seeds just stated the herb Of Ste Croir from Car
dnal Se Croix the Popes nuncio in Portugal Tornab
plant from Nicholas Tornabon, the Pope's legate in
France; Bugosse, o1 tongue Anarcc paaaceG Holy
Sacred herb CureaH plant (herbea las J Hen
1aso Of Peru As To the term td5ac, tobacco by which
the plant also known upon its first introduction in
France, some (BRANDE among others) derive it from
Tabaco, province of Yucatan where it first found
by the Spanards y others from Tobago of the West
India Carbbee Islands, where it asserted that the Span
iards commenced the use of the weed. But HUMBOLDT
in his Essay New SPAIN, shows that tobacco is in
the Hayten language the name Of the pipe used by the
nation before the arrival of the Spaniards in smoking
the plant The Spanards transferred the Of the
instrument the plant itself, and thus introduced
the into Europe where its has long since be-
come universal OF all the Others Ncotiana Nicotine
alone has survived The rest live only in history By
the way Jean Ncot have done Andre Theyet
In this matter wrong similar to that done by Americus
Vespucius to Columbus. In 1870 Ncot brought into
France and called by his plant that had been
roduced by Thevet five years before In 1899 Amercus
Vespucius visited and gave his q continent dis
covered by Columbus the year previous The fraud in
both was successful Their names are immortaized
in America and Nicotine.
| shall here introduce tables, which have been
preparing for the last three weeks
TABLE l.
Showing the expense per hecare Of cultivang tobacco
in each of the departments Also the quantity of tobac
produced per care and the average price per etr
cal qunta for period of ten years. from 1924 to 1888
The hsctars is equivalent to AL acres the met quinal
200 kos to 220,51l lbs. avoirdupois the franc to Is
cents mills Of our money