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keep them for eating in that feafon, which 

 is already very cold. They are of opinion 

 in thefe parts, that cucumbers cool more 

 than water-melons. The latter ^are very 

 flrongly diuretijp. The Iroquefe call them 

 Qnoheferakatee. 



GOURDS of feveral kinds, oblong, round, 

 flat or compreffed, crook-necked, fmall, fife, 

 are planted in all the Englijb and French 

 colonies/ In Canada, they fill the chief 

 part of the farmers kitchen-gardens, though 

 the onions came very near up with them. 

 Each farmer in the Engtijh plantations, has 

 a large field planted with gourds, and the 

 Germans, Swedes, Dutch* and ther Euro- 

 peans* fettled in their colonies, plant them. 

 Gourds are a confiderable part of the Indian 

 food ; however, they plant more fquafhes 

 than common gourds. They declare, that 

 they have had gourds long before the Euro- 

 peans discovered America ; which feerris to 

 be confirmed by the accounts of the firft 

 Europeans that came into thefe parts, who 

 mentioned gourds 2s common food among 

 the Indians. The French here call them 

 citroUilksy and the Englifh in the colonies, 

 pumpkins. They are planted in fpring, when 

 they have nolhing to fear from the froft, 

 in an enclofed field, /and a good rich foil. 

 They are Jikewife frequently put into old 



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