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that the tree dies. Perhaps the fe verity of 

 the winter contributes much to it. 



THEY plant no other fruit-trees at Al- 

 bany befides thefe I have mentioned. 



THEY fow as much hemp and flax here, 

 as they want for home consumption. 



THEY fbw maize in great abundance : A 

 loofe foil is reckoned the beft for this pur- 

 pofe ; for it will not grow in clay. From 

 half a bufhel they reap a hundred bufhels. 

 They reckon maize a very good kind of 

 corn, becaufe the (hoot recovers after be- 

 ing hurt by the froft. They have had ex- 

 amples here of the fhoots^ dying twice in 

 fpring, to the very ground, and yet they 

 mot up again afterwards, and afforded an 

 excellent crop. Maize has likewife the ad- 

 vantage of (landing much longer againft a 

 drought, than wheat. The larger fort of 

 maize which is commonly fown here, 

 ripens in September. 



THEY fow wheat in the neighbourhood 

 of Albany, with great advantage. From 

 one bufhel they get twelve fometimes ; if 

 the foil be good, they get twenty bufhels. 

 If their crop amounts only to ten bufhels 

 from one, they think it very trifling. The 

 inhabitants of the country round Albany, 

 are Dutch and Germans. The Germans 

 live in feveral great villages, and fow great 



quantities 



