adhere to the remaining ones.  The evening is the best time for setting out the plants, but where a large field has to be cultivated it will be well to plant both morning and evening.  The plants set out in the morning, unless in rainy or cloudy weather, should be covered immediately, and the same should be done with those planted the evening previous, should the day open with a clear sunshine,—­the palmetto leaf answers the purpose very well.  There should be water convenient to the plants, so as to have them watered morning and evening, but more particularly in the evening, until they have taken root.  They should also be closely examined when watered, so as to replace such plants as happen to die, that the ground may be properly occupied, and that all the plants may open as nearly together as possible.

From the time the plants are set out, the earth around them should be occasionally stirred, both with the hand and hoe.  At first hoe flat, but as soon as the leaves assume a growing disposition, begin gradually to draw a slight heel towards the plant.  The plants must be closely examined, even while in the nursery, to destroy the numerous worms that feed upon them—­some, by cutting the stalk and gnawing the leaves when first set out; these resemble the grub-worm, and are to be found near the injured plant, under ground; others, which come from the eggs deposited on the plant by the butterfly, and feed on the leaf, grow to a very large size, and look very ugly, and are commonly called the tobacco-worm.  There is also a small worm which attacks the bud of the plant, and which is sure destruction to its further growth; and some again, though less destructive, are to be seen within the two coats of the leaf, feeding as it were on its juices alone.  The worming should be strictly attended to every morning and evening, until the plants are pretty well grown, when every other day will be sufficient.  The most proper persons for worming are either boys or girls from ten to fourteen years of age.  They should be made to come to the tobacco ground early in the morning, and be led by inducements, such as giving a trifling reward to those who will bring the most worms, to clear it thoroughly.  Grown persons would find it rather too tedious to stoop to examine the under part of every leaf, and seek the worm under ground:  nor would they be so much alive to the value of a spoonful of sugar, or other light reward.  Beside, where the former would make the search a matter of profit and pleasure, it would to the latter prove only a tedious and irksome occupation.  Here I will observe, that it is for similar reasons that the culture of the Cuba tobacco plant more properly belongs to a white population, for there are few plants requiring more attention and tender treatment than it does.  Indeed it will present a sorry appearance, unless the eye of its legitimate proprietor is constantly watching over it.

When the plants have acquired from twelve