36 OLD-FASHIONED GARDENING 
is now I do not know, but it reposed in the Thoresby 
Museum at Leeds in 1719, and was added to the col¬ 
lection of smoking utensils of all nations, made around 
the middle of the last century by an English duke. 
In 1621 Sir Francis Wyat came over to take up the 
office of Governor made vacant by Yeardley’s retire¬ 
ment, bringing with him new governmental instructions 
calculated to regulate the mania for tobacco growing 
which afflicted the planters. Com, wine and silk were 
to be cultivated, apprentices were to be put to trades 
which they were not to forsake for “planting tobacco 
or any such useless commodity,” and the colonists were 
admonished to “make small quantity of tobacco, and 
that very good.” 
Six years before this there had been twelve various 
articles of export from Virginia, whereas now sassa¬ 
fras and tobacco were the only ones. Twenty thou¬ 
sand pounds of the latter had gone to England in 1619; 
seventy years later the annual import into England was 
above fifteen million pounds! And this in the face of 
the King’s “Counterblast to Tobacco,” issued in 1616; 
and of very great and general opposition by many, to 
its use. 
Yeardley had left the Colony in a most happy and 
prosperous condition, however, and as it was about this 
time that a second test of “West Indian fruits” was 
made, it would seem that the interest in tobacco rais- 
