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I.hftd almost forgot to mention their Mulberry-Trets , whereoF theyhave good Store about their Houses; these were Planted at first to feedSilk-Worms, bat that Design failing, they are now of little Use amongst them.

The Meanest Planter hach store of Cherrits , and they are ali over Virginiaas Plentiful as they are in Kent. The CherryTrecs grow njore Large generrally than they do in England , and Bear more Plenufully without any Painstaking of Digging about them, or Pruning them.

There groweth Wild in forne places or the Woods a P lum somewhat likeour Wbite Plum t but it doth Exceed it, being much more Succulent.

In the Woods there are abundance of Vines, which Twine about the Oaksand Peplars, and run up to the Top of them; these bear a kind ofClaret-Grafes , of which seine few of the Planten do make Wine, whercofI. have tasted; it is somewhat (maller than French-Clarret, j but I soppqse, ifforne of these Wmes were Planted in convenient Vineyards , whcre theSun might have a more kindly Influence upon them, and kept with Djli-gence and seasonabie Prming, they might afford a» good Grases as the Cia-ret-Grapes of France are.

There is also in the Woods a little Shrub which Beareth a Eerry like oupElder-Berry, and is a very Pleafant Berry to Eat.

, Here is a T ree call’d a Chincopme, which is like a Chesmt, with a BurryHusi , but lesi by far.

Their Gardens have ali sor-ts of Engltfh Pet-Herbs, and Sallets ; they haveCabbagesy Cokworts , Colly Flowers, Earjhips, Carrots, Potatoes y and Tams ;and such Herbs as grow Wild in England, and do not Grow there, theyPiant, as Wwmwood, Fetherfew, Houseleek, Carduus BenedtElus, Rue, Cori -ander ,. Enula , and the like.

They have likewise in their Gardens Rosas, Clove-Gilliflowers , and va^liety of other fort o{ Flowers.

There grow Wild in the Woods, Piant ane of ali forts, YelloW'Dock, Bur-dcck, Solomons-SeaJ, Egrimdny, Centory, Scabiem , Ground-sell, DwarfElder ,Tarrow, Purflain , and White Maiden-Hatr the best that ever I saw. Uponthe sides of the Hilis, Asarum ; and on the Bay-side, Soldanelia or Sea-Scur-'vjgrajs in great Plenty. Here groweth the Radix Serpentarta Nigra, whichWas so much used in the Last Great Pestilence, that the Price of it advan-ccd from iq Shillings to z Pounds ßerlmg^ Pouud: Here is also an Herb whichsome call Dittany, others Peppr-wort ; it is not Dittany of Candia, norEngltßi Dittander ; it Groweth a Foot or a Foct and half High, the Leavesare about the Breadth ot a Groat, and Figurcd like a Heart , and fhoot oucof the Stalk and Branchts one of a side directly Opposite to each other, itSooelleth Hot like Ptpper, and Biteth upon the Tongue. The Wattr of thisHerb Diftill d out of a Limbeck, is one of the best things I know to DriveWormr out of the Body; and an ounce of this li ’ater taken, Provoketh SweatElentifully.

Here grow two Roots, which some Physicians judge the one to be Tur-bith, the other Mechoacan ; but whether they be the Right or no, I couldnot well judge. Both these Roots are Purging , and in their Opcrations

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