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sal d, Cabbage-Tes th Pete Spreut, \Top;: Bui. OK snexpanded 
tops of the Cotaeahi, or 1 Dia Péln af. the aie. his are 
wade: Brooms) are. likewife eaten in, Spain and. Icaly....'Thus Hops, 
White-Briony» Smilax: afpera, | Sparagus, .jujt Sprouting, ComtMgi 
Cabbage naturally, Seleri,): ‘Lettuce, ,Fennel, Chardons and feveral 
Fterbs, are venderd White. and tender by only being, coverd with Earth 
from the Sun and Laght.: \ I have, feen a common Bramble whofe Twigs 
accidentally, grew through thy chink:of ¢-Window into a dark Room, which, 
becayfe: mat expafed tothe Light: or Sun, were white and.tender. .’Tis not 
only. {a,,45:f believe, in Gregus, butvalfa in other Colours which are heightned 
by the, Suns fan the great variety. of Colours vobfery’ din Eutips, at; fay? 
[prouting. out. re, all whitifh,, then greenifh, jand ahen the Syn and Light 
has farther: atted 1 upon them, ‘they arrive at. that variety we obferve i in shen 
with pileafure.. The. I take notice af, hecauferthe fame-Plants I defcribe, 
may have in European Gardens different Colours, from. what they. are 
mn. their native Soil, and 4 warmer Sune ey 
After U had gather’d and difribid the Plants, I dried as fair Samples of 
oe | could, to, bring. over with me. When I met with Fry itscthat 
ny not be dried or kept, I -onploy d the. Reverend } Mr. Moore, one of 
the beft Defigners I could meet with. there, ‘to take the Figures of them, 4s 
alfo of the Fi ifhes, Birds, Infetts, &e. in Crayons, and carried bim with 
“me into feveral places of the Country, that b he might take them on the place. 
When r return i intp Englands, I brought with me about Boo Slants, 
moft whereof were Ne iD) "pith t the Defigns befare-mention 4, Se. And 
| foe d them very freely to all lovers. of fuch Cayriofiti ties: I gave Hy. very 
particular and intimate Friend ‘Mr. Courten whatever 1 I brought with mes 
‘that. he wanted i in ‘his extraordinary Mufeum. . Angig other Perfons 
‘who aw them, was Sir Arthur Rawdon, who obferving the great pariety 
; of Plants F had brought with me, fent over Mr. James. Harlow, a Gar- 
“dener, (who had formerly gone, to Virginia for Mr. Watts) to bring the 
: Plants themfelves alive to him, for bis Garden at Moyra in Ireland. 
| This. Mr. Harlow perform’ d, and there they grew and came many of them 
to i cine Eien not ye EUs over with, him a se mr 
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