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2. Of fuck Plants as are proper to the Country. 



To ripen any Impojlume or Swelling. For fore Mouths. 

 The New-Englands flanding Difli. * 



INdian Wheat, of which there is three forts, yellow, 

 red, and blew; the blew is commonly Ripe before 

 the other a Month : Five or Six Grains of Indian Wheat 

 hath produced in one year 600. It is hotter than our 

 Wheat and clammy; excellent in Cataplafms to ripen 

 any Swelling or impolrume. The decoction of the blew 

 Corn, is good to warn fore Mouths with: It is light of 

 digeftion, and the EnglifJi make a kind of Loblolly of it 

 [53] to eat with Milk, which they call Sampe; they beat 

 it in a Morter, and lift the flower out of it: the remainder 

 they call Homminey, which they put into a Pot of two or 

 three Gallons, with Water, and boyl it upon a gentle Fire 

 till it be like a Hafty Pudden; they put of this into Milk, 

 and fo eat it. Their Bread alfo they make of the Hommi- 

 ney fo boiled, and mix their Flower with it, cart it into a 

 deep Bafon in which they form the Loaf, and then turn 

 it out upon the Peel, and prefently put it into the Oven ■ 

 before it fpreads abroad; the Flower makes excellent 

 Puddens. 1 



A pleasant enough illustration of what taught classical husbandry, — " ulmis 

 adjungere Tites." — Georg., i. 2. 



1 See also the Voyages, p. 73. "It is almost incredible," says Higginson 

 (New-England's Plantation, /. c, p. 118), "what great gaine some of our English 

 planters have had by our Indian corne. Credible persons have assured me, — 

 and the partie himselfe avouched the truth of it to me, — that, of the setting of 



