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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Professor" data-source="post: 111717" data-attributes="member: 202">But from the 1600's onward Ireland was warmer than it is in the last 20 years.Here, look  .  .  .  .  .  .The removal of this prohibition in the latter part of the eighteenth century led to an upsurge in tenant farmers cultivating the crop, and we know that by 1831 the tobacco plant was being extensively grown in County Wexford in particular. This was most likely due to the favourable conditions that prevailed there climatically and agriculturally. Knowledge of such conditions comes to us from An essay on the climate of Ireland (1831), which, interestingly, also notes that:‘About 1632, artichokes, colly flowers, pompions and hops seem to have been first introduced and grow very well […] if they had been introduced at an earlier period, there is little doubt but that they would have succeeded as well. The same reasoning holds good for the tobacco, cultivated at present to such an extent in the county of Wexford.’[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.historyireland.com/death-and-taxes-tobacco-growing-in-ireland/[/URL]You couldn't grow the above stuff today, as can hardly grow the silage or potatoes as what used to be at the mo'  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite24" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure    :unsure:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":unsure:" />ffs</blockquote>

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