CHAPTER 



Of its Culture, with a Defcription of tht 

 Worm that annoys it. 



S the tobacco plant, being an annual, 

 is only to be raifed from feed, I would 

 particularly recommend to fuch as mean to 

 cultivate it, the greateft care in purchafing 

 thefe, left by fowing fuch as is not good, 

 they lofe, with their expedted crop, the fea- 

 fon. The different forts of the feeds not 

 being diftinguilhable, like the plants, from 

 each other, nor the goodnefs to be 

 afcertained by their appearance, the pur- 

 chafer, till he has raifed a fupply from 

 his own cultivation, muft depend on the ve- 

 racity of the feedfman j who may be alfo 

 fometimes deceived, having nothing to rely 

 on but the honour of the perfon who raifed 

 it : prudence therefore requires that he 



fliould 



