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CHAP. CCLXIX. 
Of Potatces: 
| The Names. | 
T isnot probable that I fhould fhew you by what names the ancient Greek 
and Latine Writers did call thefe kinds of Plants, they being as I fuppate 
knowne to neither of them, being brought of later years from the Indi sfo 
that | hope it will be fufficient to tell you how the Moderne Writers have 
calledthem. Clufius callech the Spani{b Potatoes, which are thofe in moft requeft 
now amongft us, Batsata, Camotes, Amotes and Iynanes, or as fome write it Inbames, 
-Thofe of Virginia are called Battata and Battatas Virginiana five Virginiansrum, 
Papas, Papws and Pappys. Thole of Canada which we in Englith call Ferujalem Arti- 
cbocks ,becaufe the Root being boyled oo in prada a bottom of an Artichocks 
are called by Pellererins, Heliotropium Indicum tuberofum, by Columna, Flos Solis Far~ 
nefianus, five After Peruvicnus tubere[u. The _— and Kinds being thus mixed 
together, I fhall proceed to the defcription {e chat are called Spanifh Pot 
toes, becaufe they are moft for our Pt Sa as being moft refpected. 
The Spanifh Petatees rife up with many long branches, which by reafon of 
their weight and weakneffe lic trailing on the ground, whereon are fet at feve~ 
yall diftances, broad, andina manner three fquare Leaves, fomewhat like unto 
thofe of the Winter Cherry, of a ao colour, the two fides thereof: being 
broad and round, and the end pointed reafonable clofe togecher ; The Roots 
(for we have not read either of the feed or flower) are firm, {weet and very many, 
like in fhape — form - ida bir vai ae oer! and longer, of 
a pale brown colour on the ontfide, but white within, fet c erat. one 
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The Potatoes, which we call Spanifb, becaufe they were firft brought up to us 
out of Spaine, grew origi nally in the Indies, where they, or at leah tome ofthis 
kind, ferve for bread, and have been planted in many of our Gardens;wherein 
they decay rather then increafe, but the foyle of Irelanddoth fo well agree with 
th grow there fo plentifully thar there be whole fieldes overrun 
at shed sel eatcbdea ormeEC by haere ares came from thence; 
The Names of the fecondand third 
Lan fafficiently {peak their places, yet it will 
not be amiffe to tell you chat the laft came from Canada,and not from Ferufales 
notwithftanding fome ignorant people that havethem growing in their Gar- 
dens with us, call them Artichecks of Ferufalem. The firlt bearech its green Leaves 
all the Summer, which perith with the Sca’ke atthe frit approach of areat frolte ; 
The fecond thrufteth forth its Leaves in the beginning of May, the ioweke bud 
forth in Auguft, and the fruit is ripe in September : The faft ower about the lat- 
ter end of Summer, and the Roots are fitto be taken up from the time that the. 
Stalke is withered,until it fpring + perme is the greateft part of the Winter, a 
rature. m 
The Leaves of Potatoes arehot and dry,as may plainly appear by the tafte, bat. 
the Roots are of aremperate qualiry. « paecids 
oo wn org The Vertues, te tiie 
~ Which way foever Potatoes be dreffed they comfort, nourifh and firengrhen 
them under the Embers to rake away their windeaetli: and then eat chem after 
they are peeled; Others having roafted them and pecled oy exgagipl 
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