For the fame reafons care muft be taken 

 to nip off the fprouts that will be continu- 

 ally fpringing up at the jundlion of the leaves 

 with theftalks. '" This is termed fuccouring 

 or fuckering the tobacco," and ought to be 

 repeated as often as occafion requires. 



The laft, and not the leaft concern in the 

 cultivation of this plant, is the deftrudtion 

 of the worm that nature has given it for an 

 enemy, and which, like many other reptiles, 

 preys on its benefadtor. To deftroy thefe, 

 which are the only infedls that moleft this 

 plant, or at leaft to keep them under, for 

 it is impoffible totally to exterminate them, 

 every leaf muft be carefully fearched. As 

 foon as a wound is difcovered, and it will 

 not be long before it is perceptible, care 

 muft be taken to deftroy the caufe of it, who 

 will be found near it, and from his unfub- 

 ftantial texture, which I fhall defcribe at 

 the conclufion of this chapter, be eafily 

 crufhed : but the beft method is to pluck it 

 away by the horn, and then crufh it. With- 

 out 



