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The Weft afped will do well enough, 

 for all crops in the decline of the year, 

 but the North is the beft for all thofe 

 legumes that come in in the great heats 

 of the fummer; as alfo for all ftraw- 

 berries, rasberries, currans, ^c, which 

 we would make to hold out late 5 but 

 the feveral foils, fituations, ^r. proper 

 for a kitchen garden, are more largely 

 explain d elfewhere. 



SECT. V. CHAP. XLIII. 

 Of the bean. 



ETymologifts are uot clear in the 

 account they give us from whence 

 the name of faba is derived. The labo- 

 rious Brown and Stephens^ editors of the 

 Oxford catalogue, pafs it over without 

 making one obfervation about it, tho* 

 fome didionaries affirm it to be faba^ 

 alias habay (as hxdiis and hircus were in 

 the antient dialed foedus and fircus) de- 

 riving it from the Fabii, a nation or fa- 

 mily antiently called Habii, And that 

 precept of Pythagoras to his difciples, 

 {abjline a fabis) which commanded them 

 to abftain from beans, is (as authors re- 

 4 late) 



