Book VII. Sfland of BARBADOS. 
ing of boiling them; if the latter, they ought to be firft peel’d. It is 
thought in England, that they muft be firft foak’d in Water before they 
are ufed, to draw out their fharp biting Tafte ; but this Opinion is in- 
tirely groundlefs. Great Care ought to be had in digging them from 
the Ground without being bruifed, for thofe that are will foon afterward 
decay. The beft Method that is yet found to preferve fuch, 4s to 
fprinkle the bruifed or broken Part over with Lime. However, after all 
prefervative Means, fuch muft be us'd firft ; the others will keep fit for 
Ufe for near a Twelvemonth. 
The Prickty YAM-VINE: 
T HIS is a flender Vine, covered with fharp-pointed Heart-like 
Leaves, fet on alternately. At the Root of this Vine grows a Yam, 
in Tafte exactly the fame with thofe dug up yearly in Fanuary. What 
js moft remarkable in this is, that it bears all the Year round ; and when 
a Yam is dug up, a {mall Slice of the upper Part of it, in which the 
Roots of the Vine are fixed, mutt be ftill left in the Ground, which will 
grow downwards to the Bulk of that already cut off. This Amputation 
may be made for feveral Years, and perform’d fevetal Times in the fame 
Year, the Vine and its Leaves ftill flourifhing. 
The Witpd YAM-VINE. 
a IS is a quadrangular Vine bordered or fkirted at each Angle, 
with a high green thin Lift; the Leaf is umbilicated and haftated, 
of a deep-green Colour. 
Eppas; Arum maximum A‘eyptiacumi. 
T HE different Species of Eddas are diftinguifhed into the blue Eddas; 
the fcratching Eddas, and the roafting Eddas ; the Leaves of 
each being haftated, and of a blunt Arrow-head Shape. That of the 
blue Edda is very large and green on the upper Side ; the under is co- 
vered over with a glaucous Mealinefs. The moft common that are 
planted are the roafting Eddas; thefe yield a great Increafe, and are a 
very nourifhing and healthy Food, efpecially if ftew'd. The fpiral gra- 
mineous fucculent Stalks that fupport the Edda-bloffoms, as well as the 
young tender Leaves, are ufed by Negroes by way of Sallad. A Field of 
Edda, when in Bloffom, affords, in a calm Morning or Evening, a very 
fragrant odoriferous Smell. Thefe are of a round conic Shape ; the outfide 
Skin being of a dark-brown Colour, the Infide very white, and fomething 
of the Artichoke-kind. The moft common roafting Kind are dug up 
and gathered in at one Time; but fome of the Eddas may be taken 
from the Root of the large Sort, and if the Earth is clofed up again, th 
Plant continuing to thrive, will ftill produce more. 
Mmm Poratoks. 
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