Evolution of Ibortfculture 



with their first experience in horticultural 

 work. Being one ever ready to serve his 

 fellow-men in every possible manner, 

 and to share their common labors, he 

 was assisting them in planting. "After 

 a short time he comes out of the field, 

 being sick, complains of his head greatly. 

 Within a few hours, his senses fail, and in 

 a few days after, he dies, to our great 

 lamentation. " 1 His death has been at- 

 tributed to the effects of the sun, which 

 rarely produce similar results in this 

 climate in the month of April. 



As the season advanced, they found 

 native sallet herbs, and also grapes and 

 berries in great abundance. "Here are 

 grapes white and red and very sweet and 

 strong also : strawberries, gooseberries* 

 raspberries, & plums of three sorts, white, 

 black, and red, being almost as good as a 

 damson, abundance of roses, white, red, 

 and damask : single, but very sweet 

 indeed." 2 



In the spring of the second year, the 

 1 Idem, p. 200. 2 Idem^ p. 234. 



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