Penfylvania, Germantown. 1 8 1 



Many" people who chiefly employed 

 themfelves in gardening, had found in a 

 fucceffion of years, that the red Beet, which 

 grew out of the feed which was got from 

 New York, became very fweet and had a 

 very fine tafte ; but that it every year loft 

 part of its goodnefs, if it was cultivated 

 from feeds which were got here. The 

 people were therefore obliged to get as many 

 feeds of red beet every year from New York, 

 as were wanted in their gardens. It has 

 likewife been generally obferved, that the 

 plants which are produced from Engli/Jj 

 feeds are always much better and more a- 

 greeable, than thofe which come from feeds 

 of this country. 



In the garden of Mr. Cock was a raddifh 

 which was in the loofe foil, grown fo big 

 as to be feven inches in diameter. Every 

 body that faw it, owned it was uncommon 

 to fee them of fuch a fize. 



That fpecies of Convolvulus which is 

 commonly called Batatas, has here the 

 name of Bermudian potatoes. The common 

 people, and the gentry without diftindtion 

 planted them in their gardens. This is 

 done in the fame manner as with the com- 

 mon potatoes. Some people made little hil- 

 locks, into which they put thefe potatoes ; 

 but others only planted them in flat beds. 



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