may be thereby fcparared from each other to a greater 

 diftance ; then give them a little water (if the weather 

 be dry) to fettle the earth about them, which you 

 mull afterwards repeat as often as you fliall find it 

 neceffary, ftill being careful to keep the ground clear 



from weeds. 



When your Cauliflowers are quite drawn off the 



ground from between the Cucumbers, you mufthoe 



and clean the ground, drawing the earth up round 



each hole in form of a bafon, the better to contain 



the water when it is given them ; you muft a!fo lay 



out the plants in exaft order as they are to run and 



extend, fo that they may not interfere with each 



other y then lay a little earth bet?Axen the plants left, 



preffing it down gently with your hand, the better to 



fprcad them each way, giving them a little water to 



fettle the earth about them, repeating it as often as • 



the feafon fhall require, and obferving to keep the 



ground clean from weeds. The plants thus ma- 



naiT-ed, will begin to produce fruit toward the latter 



end of July, when you may either gather them young 



for pickling, or fufter them to grow for large fruit. 



The quantity of holes neceffary for a family, is about 



fifty or fixty •, for if you have fewer, they will not 



produce enough at one gathering to make it worth 



the trouble and expence of pickling, without keeping 



U 



-. CucuRBiTA (Lignofas) foliis lobans afperis, florc 

 luteo, pomis lignofis. GourJ -with rouzb-!okd lcav<-s. 



:; 



baO. 





Hie firll fort is fometimes propagated in the Enc/liili 

 gardens by way of curiolity, but the fruit is very 

 rarely eaten here -, though, if they are gathered when 

 they are young, wliile their fkins are tender, and 

 boiled, they have 



an agreeable 



the In 

 linary ; 



, . _ flavour. In the 



eaflern countries thefe fruit are very commonlv cul- 

 tivated and fold in the markets fur tlie table, and are 

 a great part of the 'food of the common people, from 

 June to Odober. Thefe fruit are alfo eaten in both 



Ues, wi.ere the plr.nts are cultivated as cu- 

 and in thofe countries, where the heat of 

 their fummers is too great for many of our common 

 vegetables, thefe may be a very good fubilitute. 

 This fort doth not vary like molt of the others, but 

 always produces the fame fliaped fruit ; the plants of 

 this extend to a great length, if the feafon proves 

 warm and favourable, and will then produce ripe 

 fruit \ but in cold fummers, the fruit feldom grows 

 to half its ufual fize. 'I have meafured fome of thefe 

 fruit when growing, which were fix feet long, and a 

 foot and a half round •, the plants were near twenty 

 feet in length : the ftalks of this, and alfo the leaves, 



them too long in the houfe, for you cannot expert I ' are covered with a fine foft hairy down •, the flowers 

 to gather more than two hundred at eich time from J ■ are large, white, and fland upon long foot-ftalks, 

 fifty holes ; but this may be done twice a week during I being reflexed at their brim; the fruit is generally 



only 



fo that from fifty holes you ma 

 gather about two thouiand in 

 they arc talkeh fmall, will not be too many for a pri- 



incurved and crooked, and when ripe, is of a pale 

 yellow colour. The rind of this fruit becomes hard, 

 fo that if the feeds and pulp are taken out, and the 

 fliell dried, it will contain water; and in thofe coun- 



A — _ ^ _ . 



Vate ftmily. And if fo many are not wanted, they [ tries where they are much cultivated, are ufed for 



may t)C left to grow to a proper fize for eating. 

 UCUMIS AGRESTIS. See Mo 



many purpofes. 



The fecond fort, which is commonly known by the 



Gourd. 



The Characters are, 



\i female flowers in the fc 



The 



flowers have a bell-fiaped empalement of one leaf whofe 

 borders are terminated by five briftUs ; the flowers are 

 bell-flsaped^ adhering to the empalementy and are of one 

 petaU which is veined and roughs divided at the top into 



J 



The male flowers have three fl 



difl 



CUCURBIT A. Lin. Gtn. Plant. 968. Tourn Infl. title of Pumpkin, is frequently cultivated by the 

 - 'R. H, 107. [fo called from Curvata, Lat. bended, country people in England, who plant them upon 

 becau fcthe fruit of this plant generally bends,] the j their dunghills, where the plants run over them, and 



fpread to a great diftance -, when the feafons are fa- 

 vourable, they will produce plenty of large fruit : 

 thefe they ufually fuffer to grow to maturity, then 

 thejf cut open a hole on one fide, and take the feeds 

 out of the pulp as clean as poflible, after which 

 they fill the ftiell v/ith Apples fliced, which they mix 

 with the pulp of the fruit, and fome add a little fur 

 gar and fpice to it ; then bake it in an oven, and eat 

 it in the fame manner as baked Apples ; but this is a 

 ftrong food, and only fit for thofe who labour hard, 

 and can eafily digeft it. 



Thefe may be propagated by fowihg their feeds in 

 April, on a hot-bed; and when the plants come vip, 

 they fhduld be tfahfplahted on another moderate bed, 

 where they fliould be brought up hardily, and have 

 a great deal of air to llrengthen them ; and when 

 they have got four or five leaves, they Ihould be 

 ■ tranfplanted into holes made upon an old dunghill, 

 or fome fuch place, allowing them a great deal of 

 room to run, for fome of the forts will fpread to a 

 great diftance. I have meafured a fingle plant, which 



M^K b 



tmnated by linear ft. 



thefe 



rhe 



female flowers have a large germen, fituated under the 

 flower^ fupporting a conical trifidflyle^ crowned by a large 

 trifid ftigma. 'The germen afterward becomes a large 

 flefly fruity having three fhft membranaceous cells which are 

 diflinffj incl^ng two rows tf feeds which are bordered. 

 This genus of plants is ranged in the tenth feftion 

 of Linnseus^s ' twenty-firft clafs, 

 Syngenefia, the plants having male and female flow- 

 ers on the fame plant, ^and the ftathina'of the male 

 flowers being connefted. 



Monoeci 



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The Species are. 



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1. CucuRBiTA {Lagenaria) foliis cordatis denticulatis 



' . tomentofis bafi fubtus biglandulofis ; pomis lignofis. 



'' Lin. Sp. 1434. Gourd with hea-rt-fhaped^ indent ed^ woolly 



%aves^ having two glands at their bafe^ and a ligneous 



fhell to the fruit. Cucurbita longa, folio molli, flore 



albo. J. B. 2. 221. Commonly called the Long Gourd. 



ft. Cucurbita {Pepo) foliis lobatis, pomis lasvibus. Lin. 



Sp. Plant. 1010. Gcurd with lobed leaves and a fmooth 

 ■ fruit. Cucurbita major rotunda, flore luteo, folio af- 



pero. C. B. P. 2 1 3. Commonly called Pompiony or Pumpkin. 

 3. Cucurbita {Verruccfa) foliis lobatis, pomis nodofo- 



verrucofis. Lin. Sp. Plant. loio. Gourd with Iched 



leavesy and awarted knobby fruit. Cucurbita verrucofa. 



J. B. 2. 222. JVar ted Gourd. 

 '4. Cucurbita {Melopepo) foliis lobatis, caule eredo, 



pomis dcprcflTo-nodofis. Lin. Sp. Plant. loio. Gcurd 



with Icbed leaves^ an ercB ftalk^ and a depreffcd knotty 



fruit. Melopepo clypeiformis. C. B. P. 312. Com- 

 \ m only CcUed Soiiaf-:. - ■ - - 



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had run upwards of forty feet from the hole, and 

 had produced a great number of fide branches ; fo 

 l^at if the plant had been encouraged, and all the 

 fide branthes permitted to remain, I dare fay it would 

 have fairly overfpread twenty rods of ground ; which, 

 to fome people, may feem like a romance, yet I 

 can affirm it to be faft. But what is this to the ac- 

 count printed in the Tranfaftions of the Royal So- 

 ciety, which was communicated to them by Paul 

 Dudley, Efq; from New England, wherein mention 

 is made of a fingle plant of this kind, which, without 

 any culture, fpread over a large fpot of ground, 

 and from which plant were gathered two hundred 

 and fixty fruits each, one with another, as big as 



half peck. 



There are feveral varieties of this fruit, which differ 



in their form and fize; but as thefe are annually va- 

 rying from feeds, fo I have omitted the mentioning 

 them, for they feldom continue to produce the fame 



kinds of fruit three years together. 



The 



