The Creole planters in Louisiana are said to grow three crops in this
manner, the first or parent crop and two growths of suckers. The
quality of leaf, however, is greatly inferior, as it is small and thin
and lacking in all the qualities necessary for a fine leaf. The
planters now adopted new methods of culture, and cultivated several
species of the plant known as Oronoko and little Frederick, although
they did not fertilize the fields, even when the soil became
impoverished, but simply took new fields for its culture.

Hugh Jones says of the kinds of tobacco grown in Virginia:--

"The land between the James and York rivers seemes nicely
adapted for sweet scented tobacco; for 'tis observed that
the goodness decreaseth the farther you go to the northward
of the one, and the southward of the other; but this may be
(I believe) attributed in some measure to the seed and
management, as well as to the land and latitude: For on York
river in a small tract of land called Diggens neck, which is
poorer than a great deal of other land in the same latitude,
by a particular seed and management, is made the famous crop
known by the name of E Dees, remarkable for its mild taste
and fine smell." He speaks of the planters and their
plantations as follows:--"Neither the interests nor
inclinations of the Virginians induces them to cohabit in
towns: so that they are not forward in contributing their
assistance towards the making of particular places, every
plantation affording the owner the provision of a little
market; wherefore they most commonly build upon some
convenient spot or neck of land in their own plantation,
though towns are laid out and established in each county.

"The whole country is a perfect forest, except where the
woods are cleared for plantations, and old fields, and where
have been formerly Indian towns, and poisoned fields and
meadows, where the timber has been burnt down in fire
hunting and otherwise; and about the creeks and rivers are
large rank morasses or marshes, and up the country are poor
savannahs. The gentlemen's seats are of late built for the
most part of good brick, and many of timber very handsome,
commodious, and capacious; and likewise the common planters
live in pretty timber houses, neater than the farm houses
are generally in England: With timber