of North Carolina. 19 



Samphire, is in very great Plenty along the Marshes near 

 the Sea and Salt Water, and is very good. 



Mushrooms, good and in great Plenty all over the Fields. 



Asparagus, thrives in this Province to a miracle, without 

 the assistance or benefit of Hot-Beds, Dung, or other Manure, 

 being only produced from the natural goodness of the Soil, 

 and it is found in Plenty in most Gardens in this Province, 

 and as good as any in Europe. As likewise Selery and Clary. 



Parsley, two Sorts, the White-Cabbage, from European 

 Seeds thrive well here, but the planters seldom or never take 

 Care or Pains to preserve good Seed of their own ; so that by 

 their iSTegligence, it is not so common as otherwise it might. 

 The Colly-Flower does not thrive well here, by what tryals 

 I have seen made during my abode in those Parts ; but the 

 plain and curled Coleworth^ ilourisheth. 



The Artichoah I have observed but in two Places in this 

 Province, which is tollerable good, here are likewise great 

 quantities of excellent good Water-MeUo7is of several sorts, 

 Musk-Mellons, very good and of several sorts, as the Golden, 

 Green, Guinea, and Orange. Cucumbers, long, short, and 

 prickly, and all produced from the natural Ground with great 

 Increase, without any help of Dung, or reflection from 

 Glasses. 



Ponipions, yellow and very large Burmillions, Cashaws, 

 which is an excellent Fruit when boyl'd. Squashes, Symnals, 

 Horns and Gourds, besides variety of other Speces of less 

 value, such as the Poke, which is a kind of Mechoacan, and 

 grows in every Field, the tender Tops whereof may be boiled 

 and made use of as other Greens with all the safety immagi- 

 nable, and are very good and nourishing, but the Roots 

 (which are as thick as a Man's Leg) are not to be medled 



with. 



