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wisdom of penal laws to maintain her good faith against imposi- 
tion upon strangers who trade with her, It has been customary 
in former ages to rear an inferior plant. from the sucker which 
_ projects from the root after the cutting of an early plant; and 
thus a second'crop has been often obtained from, the same field 
by one and the same course of culture ; and although this scion 
is of a sufficient quality for smoking, and: might become preferred. 
in the weaker kinds of snuff, it has been (I think very properly) 
thought eligible to prefer a prohibitory law, to a risk of honey ; 
tion by means of similitude. _ f 
«The practice of dalttvating: etikersi is on dass. sia 
not only discountenanced  as- fraudulent, but the constables are 
strictly enjoined ea officio to make. diligent search, and to em- 
ploy the posse comitatus in. destroying such crops; a law 
indeed for which, to the credit of the Virginians, there is. seldom 
occasion; yet some few instances have occurred, within my day, 
where the constables have very honourably carried it into exe- 
cution in a manner truly exemplary, and productive of public 
good. | 
hd the Worm. ! 
_ «There are several species of the worm, or rather saa ge- 
nus, which prove injurious to the culture of tobacco; some of 
these attack the root, and some the leaf of the plant ;— but that 
which is most destructive,.and. consequently creates the most 
employment, is: the horn worm, or large green_ tobacco worm. 
This appears to me to - ‘be the same species with that which 
Catesby has described in the. second volume of his Natural His- 
ona Gee ENR 
the great horned caterpillar. or 
_« ¢This caterpillar,’ says ee ‘is about four inches long, be- 
sides the head and tail ; ‘it consists of ten joints, or rings, of a 
yellow colour; on the head, which is black, grow four pair of 
