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low, when their pulp is very wholfome 0/ ?/&w> 

 and good, efpecially when baked with'^^^^'^^-^'' 

 onions, &c, in them, which is beft to- 

 wards the fpring of the year, tho' they 

 are good any time of the winter. 



S E C T. 11. CHAP. XIX: 

 Of the pumpioYiy or pumpkins. 



TH E pumpion, or pumpkin, is al- of tU 

 fo a larger kind of the citrul 5 ^ 

 but as it is of various colours, does not 

 keep fo clofe to that kind. It has al- 

 ways bore the name of pepo, amongft 

 the antients, from feveral Greek roots 

 which imply its aptitude to grow large, 

 and fmell well. 



Our Englijh Herbals take notice but of tU^ 

 of two kinds, which are the pepo maxi- 

 mus oblonguSy or the great long pumpi- 

 on, and the pepo maximus rotundus^ or 

 the great round pumpion or pumpkin. 



Its culture is the fame with that of its, mlfuM 

 the citrul, to which, as is before faid, 

 it is ally'd 5 they may be planted on any 

 dung-hill, and have no previous care in 

 the hot-bed, and will alfo rtfti up againft a 

 hedge or pale, to a very good purpofe j; 



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