Evolution of Iborttcultute 



sion, for the benefit of health, and taken 

 privately. " l 



Among the articles " to provide to be 

 sent to New England " by the Massachu- 

 setts Company, in 1629, are the follow- 

 ing : " Vine-planters, wheat, rye, barley, 

 oats, a hogshead of each in the ear: 

 beans, pease, stones of all sorts of fruits, 

 as peaches, plums, filberts, cherries : 

 pear, apple, quince kernels : pomegra- 

 nates, woad seed, saffron heads, liquorice 

 seed, madder roots, potatoes, hop-roots, 

 hemp seed, flax seed, currant plants, and 

 madder seeds." These seeds and roots 

 were afterwards sent, and, according to 

 accounts, sprung up and flourished. The 

 mode of cultivating and manuring the 

 soil by means of fish, was practised at 

 first as at Plymouth. Owing, however, 

 to the scarcity of certain kinds, such as 

 cod and bass, it was forbidden in 1639 to 

 use these for that purpose. 



William Wood who came to New Eng- 

 land in 1629, and returned to England in 



1 Idem, p. 146. 



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