128 September 1748. 



contract ones mouth, and have a very difa- 

 greeable tafte. But as foon as they are ripe, 

 which does not happen till they have been 

 quite foftened by the froft, they are a very 

 agreeable fruit. They are here eaten raw, 

 and feldom any other way. But in a great 

 book, which contains a defcription of Vir- 

 ginia, you meet with different ways of 

 preparing the Perfimon, under the article 

 of that name. Mr. Bartram, related that 

 they were commonly put upon the table 

 amongft the fweet-meats, and that fome 

 people made a tolerably good wine of them. 

 Some of thefe Perfimon fruits were dropped 

 on the ground in his garden, and were al- 

 mofr. quite ripe, having been expofed to a 

 great degree of the heat of the fun. We 

 picked up a few and tafted them, and I 

 muft own that thofe who praifed this fruit 

 as an agreeable one, have but done it juftice. 

 It really deferves a place among the moft 

 palatable fruit of this country, when the 

 froft has thoroughly conquered its acri^ 

 mony. 



The Verbafcum T/japfus, or great white 

 Mullein, grows in great quantity on roads, 

 in hedges, on dry fields, and high mea- 

 dows of a ground mixed with fand. The 

 Swedes here call it the tobacco of thefavages, 

 but owned, that they did not know whe- 

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