36 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 



is now I do not know, but it reposed in the Thoresby 

 Museum at Leeds in 1719, and was added to the col- 

 lection of smoking utensils of all nations, made around 

 the middle of the last century by an English duke. 



In 1621 Sir Francis Wyat came over to take up the 

 office of Governor made vacant by Yeardley's retire- 

 ment, bringing with him new governmental instructions 

 calculated to regulate the mania for tobacco growing 

 which afflicted the planters. Corn, wine and silk were 

 to be cultivated, apprentices were to be put to trades 

 which they were not to forsake for "planting tobacco 

 or any such useless commodity," and the colonists were 

 admonished to "make small quantity of tobacco, and 

 that very good." 



Six years before this there had been twelve various 

 articles of export from Virginia, whereas now sassa- 

 fras and tobacco were the only ones. Twenty thou- 

 sand pounds of the latter had gone to England in 1619; 

 seventy years later the annual import into England was 

 above fifteen million pounds ! And this in the face of 

 the King's "Counterblast to Tobacco," issued in 1616; 

 and of very great and general opposition by many, to 

 its use. 



Yeardley had left the Colony in a most happy and 

 prosperous condition, however, and as it was about this 

 time that a second test of "West Indian fruits" was 

 made, it would seem that the interest in tobacco rais- 



