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not any that hath written of this plant, or 

 said any thing of the flowers, therefore I re- 

 fer the description thereof vnto those that 

 shall heereafter haue further knowledge of 

 the same ; yet haue I had in my garden 

 diners roots that haue flourished vnto the 

 first approach of winter, and haue grown 

 vnto a great length of branches, but they 

 brought not foorth any flowers at all. The 

 roots are many, thick and knobbie, like vnto 

 the roots of peionies, or rather of the aspho- 

 dill, ioined togither at the top into one head, 

 in manner of the skyrrit, which being diuided 

 into diuers parts and planted, do make great 

 increase, especially if the greatest rootes be 

 cut into diuers gobbets, and planted in good 

 fertill ground. The potatoes grow in India, 

 Barbarie, Spaine, and other hotte regions, of 

 which I planted diuers rootes (that I bought 

 at the Exchange in London) in my garden, 

 where they flourished vntil winter, at which 

 time they perished and rotted. 



" The potatoe-roots are among the Spa- 

 niards, Italians, and many other nations, com- 

 mon and ordinary meate ; which, no doubt, 

 are of mightie nourishing parts, and do 

 strengthen and comfort nature; whose nutri- 

 ment is, as it were, a meane betweene flesh 



