Michael's enterprises included real estate, shipping, tavern keeping and, in Maryland, planting tobacco.

"It'll be a long time before anyone gets around to planting tobacco."

If you have good land at the ready, Edmund, you should plant tobacco instantly.

The colony lasted because it made money by planting tobacco.

The first settlers from the Old World planted cotton and tobacco.

Mason planted an orchard and tobacco and raised sheep and cattle.

"Is there anything you don't know about planting tobacco, Virginia?"

Older and wiser men suggested cotton, but Wilson again planted tobacco, producing a second crop that was, if anything, earthier.

In addition, fire was used to prevent abandoned fields from growing over and to clear areas for planting corn and tobacco.

Many people considered planting coffee, tobacco, sugarcane and sugarbeet instead of vines.