344 CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



for any government to interfere with what 

 seeds a landed proprietor may sow, or what 

 plants he may cultivate on his own soil ; yet 

 individuals must be satisfied with the axiom, 

 that private benefit must give place to 

 public good. 



Coles says, in 1657, " It prospers well 

 about Winscomb, in Glocestershire, where I 

 think the planting of it is now discontinued, 

 because the store that came from thence was 

 an hinderance to the publick revenue coming 

 in for the custome of that which is brought 

 from beyond seas." 



By various acts passed in the reign of 

 Charles the Second, tobacco is forbidden to 

 be planted in England, on forfeiture of forty 

 shillings for every rod of ground thus planted, 

 excepting in physic gardens, where it is al- 

 lowed in quantities not exceeding half a pole 

 of ground. Justices of Peace have power to 

 issue warrants to constables to search after 

 and destroy the same. It appears that wal- 

 nut-tree leaves have been used as a substitute 

 for tobacco ; 5 Geo. c. 11, forbids the cutting 

 of walnut-tree leaves, or other leaves (not 

 being tobacco leaves) or colouring them so 

 as to resemble tobacco ; or selling the same, 

 mixed or unmixed for tobacco ; under a pe- 

 nalty of forfeiting five shillings a pound, &c. 



