the height of four
or five foote, unto three or four or five cubits according
as is sown in a hot and fat ground, and carefully tilled.
The boughs and branches thereof put out at joints, and
divide the stalk by distance of halfe a foote: the highest
of which branches are bigger than an arme.

"At the tops and ends of his branches and boughs, it putteth
foorth flowers almost like those of Nigella, of a whitish
and incarnate color, having the fashion of a little bell
comming out of a swad or husk, being of the fashion of a
small goblet, which husk becometh round, having the fashion
of a little apple, or sword's pummell: as soon as the flower
is gone and vanished away, it is filled with very small
seedes like unto those of yellow henbane, and they are black
when they be ripe, or greene, while they are not yet ripe.

"In a hot countree it beareth leaves, flowers, and seeds at
the same time, in the ninth or tenth month of the year it
putteth foorth young cions at the roote, and reneweth itself
by this store and number of cions, and great quantity of
sprouts, and yet notwithstanding the roots are little,
small, fine thready strings, or if otherwise they grow a
little thick, yet remaine they still very short, in respect
of the height of the plant. The roots and leaves do yield a
glewish and rosinith kind of juice, somewhat yellow, of a
rosinlike smell, not unpleasant, and of a sharpe, eager and
biting taste, which sheweth that it is by nature hot,
whereupon we must gather that it is no kind of yellow
henbane as some have thought. Nicotiana craveth a fat ground
well stird, and well manured also in this cold countrie
(England) that is to say an earth, wherein the manure is so
well mingled and incorporated, as that it becometh earthie,
that is to say, all turned into earth, and not making any
shew any more of dung: which is likewise moist and shadowie,
wide and roomy, for in a narrow and straight place it would
not grow high, straight, great and well-branched.

"It desireth the South sun before it, and a wall behind it,
which may stand in stead of a broad pair of shoulders to
keep away the northern wind and to beate backe againe the
heat of the sun. It groweth the better if it be oft watered,
and maketh itself sport and jolly good c