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CHAP. xxxi. Of Plants mid fruits which have bin carried out 

 of Spaine to the Indies. 



The Indians have received more profit, and have bin LIB. IT. 

 better recompensed in plants that have bin broght from 

 Spaine, than in any other marchandise, for that those few 

 which are carried from the Indies into Spaine, growe little 

 there, and multiply not ; and contrariwise the great number 

 that have beene caried from Spaine to the Indies, prosper 

 wel and multiplie greatly. I know not whether I shall 

 attribute it to the bounty of the plants that goe from hence, 

 or to the goodnesse of the soile that is there. Finally, there 

 is at the Indies any good thing that Spaine brings foorth ; 

 in some places it is better, in some worse, as wheate, 

 barley, hearbes, and all kindes of pulses ; also lettuce, cab 

 bage, radishes, onions, garlike, parsley, turnips, parsnips, 

 nightshade, 1 or apples of love, siccorie, beetes, spinage, 

 pease, beanes, vetches ; and finally, whatsoever groweth 

 heere of anie profite, so as all that have voyaged thither, 

 have beene curious to carry seedes of all sorts, and all have 

 growen, although diversly, some more, some Jesse. As for 

 those trees that have most aboundantly fructified, be orange 

 trees, limons, citrons, and others of that sort. In some 

 partes there are at this day, as it were, whole woods and 

 forests of orange trees ; the which seeming strange vnto 

 mee, I asked who had planted the fields with so many 

 orange trees ? they made mee answer, that it did come by 

 chaunce, for that oranges being fallen to the ground, and 

 rotten, their seeds did spring, and of those which the 

 water had carried away into diverse partes, these woods 

 grew so thicke, which seemed to me a very good reason. 

 I have saide that this fruite hath generally increased most 

 at the Indies, for that I have not beene in any place but I 



1 Bcrengenas. 



