iflto Augiijl 1749. 



plenty of red beets, horferadifhes and 

 common raddifhes, thyme, and marjoram. 

 Turneps are fown in abundance, and ufed 

 chiefly in winter. Parfneps are fometimes 

 eaten, though not very common. Few 

 people took notice of potatoes ; and neither 

 the common ( Solatium tuberofum) nor the 

 Bermuda ones (Convolvulus Batatas) were 

 planted in Canada, When the French here 

 are afked why they do not plant potatoes, 

 they anfwer that they cannot find any relifh 

 in them, and they laugh at the Englifh who 

 are fo fond of them. Throughout all North* 

 America the root cabbage* (Brajfica gon~ 

 gylodes, Linn.} is unknown to the Swedes ', 

 Eng/i/h, Dutch, Irijh, Germans, and French. 

 Thofe who have been employed in lowing and 

 planting kitchen herbs in Canada, and have 

 had fome experience in gardening, told me 

 that they were obliged to fend for frefti 

 feeds from France every year, becaufe they 

 commonly loofe their Strength here in the 

 third generation, and do not produce fuch 

 plants as would equal the original ones in 

 tafte and goodnefs. 



*. This is a kind of cabbage;, with large round eatab'e 

 roots, which grow out above the ground wherein it differs 

 from the tarnep-cabage (Brajjica Nxpobrajjica) whofe root 

 grows in the ground. Both are common jin Germany , and 

 she former likewife in Italy, 



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