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red beet every year from New Tork, as were want- 

 ed in their gardens. It has likewife been gene- 

 rally obferved, that the plants which are produced 

 from Englijh feeds are always much better and 

 more agreeable, than thofe which come from 

 feeds of this country. 



IN the garden of Mr. Cock was a radifti, 



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 lize. 



THAT fpecies of Convolvulus which is com- 

 monly called Batatas, has here the name of Ber- 

 mudian potatoes. The common people, and the 

 gentry, without diftindtion, planted them in their 

 gardens. This is done in the fame manner as 

 with the common potatoes. Some people made 

 little hillocks, into which they put thefe pota- 

 toes ' y but others only planted them in flat beds. 

 The foil muft be a mixture of fand and earth, 

 and neither too rich nor too poor. When they 

 are going to plant them, they cut them, as the 

 common potatoes, taking care however that a 

 bud or two be left upon each piece which is in- 

 tended to be planted. Their colour is commonly 

 red without, and yellow within. They are big 

 ger than the common fort, and have a fweet and 

 very agreeable tafte, which I cannot r find in the 

 other potatoes, in artichokes, or in any other root; 

 and they almoft melt in the mouth v It is not 

 long fince they have been planted here. They 

 are dreflfed in the fame manner as common po- 

 tatoes, and eaten either along with them, or by 

 themfelves. They grow very faft and very well 



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