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1633, there published, in the following 

 year, his observations and experiences in 

 a treatise entitled New England's Pros- 

 pect. In speaking of the Massachusetts 

 Plantations, he says: "The ground af- 

 foards very good kitchin gardens for 

 Turneps, Parsnips, Carots, Radishes, and 

 Pumpions, Muskmillions, Isquouter- 

 quashes, Coucumbers, Onyons, and 

 whatsoever growes well in England, 

 grows as well there, many things being 

 better and larger : there is likewise grow- 

 ing all manner of hearbes for meate, and 

 medicine, and that not onely in planted 

 gardens, but in the woods, without eyther 

 the art or the helpe of man, as sweet 

 Marjoran, Purselane, sorrel, Peneriall, 

 Yarrow, Mirtle, Saxisarilla, Bayes, &c. 

 There is likewise Strawberries in abun- 

 dance, very large ones, some being two 

 inches about: one may gather halfe a 

 bushell in a forenoone : In other seasons 

 there bee Gooseberries, Bilberries, Res- 

 berries, Treackleberries, Hurtleberries, 

 Currants, which being dryed in the Sunne 

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