fkfo=<EnrfIatt&3 Earittes* 121 



For the heat in Feavers. 



They are alfo good to allay the fervour of hot Difeafes. 



The Indians and EngliJJi ufe them much, boyling them 

 with Sugar for Sauce to eat with their Meat; and it is a 

 delicate Sauce, efpecially for roafted Mutton: Some make 

 Tarts with them as with Goofe Berries. 



Vine, much differing in the Fruit, all of them very 

 flefhy, fome reafonably pleafant; others have a tafte of 

 Gun Powder, and thefe grow in Swamps, and low wet 

 Grounds. 1 



[67] 3- Of fiuh Plants as are proper to the Country, and 



have no Name. 



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Irola, or Winter Green, that kind which grows with 

 us in England is common in New-England? but 



1 Wood says the "vines afford great store of grapes, which are very big, both 

 for the grape and cluster; sweet and good. These be of two sorts, — red and - 

 white. There is likewise a smaller kind of grape which groweth in the islands" 

 (that is, of Massachusetts Bay), "which is sooner ripe, and more delectable; so 

 that there is no known reason why as good wine may not be made in those parts, 

 as well as Bordeaux in France; being under the same degree." — Ne-w-Eng. Pros- 



■ fe&, chap. v. "Vines," says Mr. Graves (in New-Eng. Plantation, Hist. Coll., 

 vol. i. p. 124) " doe grow here, plentifully laden with the biggest grapes that ever 

 I saw. Some I have seene foure inches about." — "Our Governour," adds Hig- 

 ginson, " hath already planted a vineyard, with great hope of encrease." — Ne-w- 

 England's Plantation, I. c, p. 119. Vitis Labrusca, L. (fox-grape), — for some 

 principal varieties of which, see Emerson, /. c, p. .468, — furnished, probably, most 

 of the sorts known favorably to the first settlers ; but V. aestivalis, Michx. (summer 

 grape), also occurs on our seaboard. 



2 Pyrola, L., emend. (Gerard, p. 408). All but one of our species are common 

 also to Europe. 



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