146 September 1748. 



pumpions or melons, which they have al- 

 ways cultivated, even in the remoteft ages. 

 The "Europeans fettled in America, got the 

 feeds of this plant, and at prefent their gar- 

 dens are full of it, the fruit has an agreeable 

 tafte when it is well prepared. They are 

 commonly boiled, then crufhed (as we are 

 ufed to do with turneps when we make a 

 pulfe of them) and fome pepper or other fpice 

 thrown upon them, and the difh is ready. 

 The Indians likewife fow feveral kinds of 

 beans, which for the greater!: part they 

 have got from the Europeans. But peafe 

 which they likewife fow, they have always 

 had amongft them, before any foreigners 

 came into the country. The fquafhes of 

 the Indians, which now are likewife culti- 

 vated by the Europeans, belong to thofe 

 kinds of gourds (cucurbita,) which ripen 

 before any other. They are a very deli- 

 cious fruit, but will not keep. I have 

 however feen them kept till pretty late in 

 winter. 



September the 30th. Wheat and rye 

 are fbwn in autumn about this time, and 

 commonly reaped towards the end of June, 

 or in the beginning of July. Thefe kinds 

 of corn, however, are fometimes ready to be 

 reaped in the middle of June, and there 

 2re even examples that they have been 

 -»vi3)do mown 



