Montreal, s6^ 



keep them for eating in that feafon, which 

 is already very cold. They are of opinion 

 in thefe parts, that cucumbers cool more 

 than water-melons. The latter are ver/ 

 flrongly diuretic. The Iroquefe call them 

 Onoheferakatee. 



Gourds of feveral kinds, oblong, ronnd, 

 flat or comprefled, crook-necked, fmall, ©r, 

 are planted in all the Englijh and French 

 colonies. In Canada, they fill the chief 

 part of the farmers kitchen-gardens, though 

 the onions came very near up with them. 

 Each farmer in the Englifi plantations, has 

 a large field planted with gourds, and the 

 Germans t Swedes, Dutch, and ether Euro- 

 peans, fettled in their colonies, plant them. 

 Gourds are a confiderable part of the Indian 

 food J however, tht-y plant more fquafhes 

 than common gourds. They declare, that 

 they have had gourds long'before the Euro- 

 peans difcovered America; which feems to 

 be confirmed by the accounts of the firft 

 Europeans that came into thefe parts, who 

 mentioned gourds as common food rmong 

 the Indians. The French here call them 

 citrouilles, and the EngliJJd in the colonies, 

 pumpkins. They are planted in fpring, when 

 they have nothing to fear from the froft, 

 in an enclofed field, and a good rich foil. 

 They are like wife frequently put into old 



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