time that Boston began to acquire the characteristics of 

 a village, in the 1630's, seeds of the Virginia type were 

 imported into the colony. Some undoubtedly came from 

 the West Indies. 



Tobacco of a milder sort resulted but it still did not 

 provide leaves for a flavorful smoke. There was nothing 

 wrong with the seeds; nothing wrong with the culture. 

 What was wrong, for this particular plant, was the soil, 

 which contained too high a proportion of common salt. 

 It was to take time for the fanners to understand this 

 basic fault. 



Still, tobacco of the Massachusetts colony continued 

 to be traded to various other settlements in New Eng- 

 land, briefly to New Amsterdam, and some of it was 

 exported to the mother country. 





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