Evolution of f>orticulture 



seede, if they knew where to finde 

 it." i 



Wood's remarks upon the seasons of 

 the year, and the relation of these to the 

 crops produced, are remarkably correct 

 for an observer who had spent only a 

 short time in New England, scarcely four 

 years. 



" It hath been observed that English 

 Wheate and Rye proves better which is 

 winter sowne, and is kept warm by the 

 Snow, than that which is sowne in the 

 Spring. The summers are commonly hot 

 and dry, there being seldome any raines : 

 I have knowne it sixe or seaven weekes 

 before one shower hath moystened the 

 Plowman's labour, yet the harvest hath 

 beene very good, the Indian Corne requir- 

 ing more heate than wet : for the Eng- 

 lish Corne, it is refreshed with the 

 nightly dewes, till it grows up to shade 

 his roots with its owne substance from the 

 parching Sunne. . . ." 



1 Wood's New England's Prospect, 1634, pp. 11,15, 

 16, 106. 



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