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bore; I left the Country fhortly after, and fo 

 no certainty of the final Refult. There be had 

 various Accidents and Diftempers, whereun- 

 to Tobacco is liable, as the Worm, the Fly, 

 Firing to Turn, as they call them. French- 

 men, and the like. I proposed feveral ways 

 to kill the Worm and Fly, as by Sulphur 

 and the like but had no opportunity to 

 experiment it : I lhall fet down that I had 

 moft hopes of, which perhaps may give a 

 hint to others to try or improve. Tobacco- 

 feed is very fmall, and by confequence fo is 

 the young Plant at firft, that if gleamy Wea« 

 ther happen at that time, it breeds a fmall 

 Fly, which confumes the Plume of the Plant j 

 now it being early in the Year when they 

 Sow the Seed, viz.. about the fourteenth of 

 January^ they cover the Ground, to fecure, 

 as well as they can, their tender Plants, from 

 the nipping Frofts, that may happen in the 

 I^ights they cover them only with a few 

 Oak-leaves, or the like ; for Straw they find 

 apt to Harbour and Breed this Fly : I there- 

 fore would advife them to fmoak Straw with 

 Brimftone, once in two or three Nights, and 

 fo they might cover them fecurely, with that 

 which would preferve them infinitely beyond 

 the Covering with Oak-boughs ; indeed, I 

 would advife them to keep peculiarly fo much 

 of their Corn-blades, which they ga- 



ther for their Fodder, for this very purpofe, 

 being as I conceive, much the beft, there be- 

 ing no Chaff to foul their Beds, and pre- 

 judice them when they fliould weed them. 

 What they call Firing is this: When Plants 

 are of fmall Subftance, as when there has 



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