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lax hortenjis rubray a red kidney bean ; 

 all to be found in Gerard, p. 12 12. 



Gerard has alfo made the fame head 

 the fmilax hortenjis flava, or the pale 

 kidney bean ; with three or four forts 

 of the phafeolus peregrinus, of different 

 fizes and colors, which he borrows from 

 Clujius j and Bauhiniis in Tin. p. 340. 

 adds others, of various colours, under 

 the general term or title of, phafeolus 

 variegatus diver far um fpecierum, or par- 

 ty-colour'd kidney beans, of divers kinds. 

 At prefent we chiefly fow and plant the 

 old white kind 5 tho'the black, red, yel- 

 low and party-colour'd eat very well : 

 And of this phafeolus it may be truly 

 faid, there are more diverfity of fpecies> 

 than of any other garden plant we have 

 tranfmitted to us from foreign parts, and 

 cndenizon'd in this our feverer climate, 

 tho' moft of thefe are kept in lloves and 

 other warm places, their tranfportatioa 

 and admiflion into this ifland being ge- 

 nerally owing to that great lover of 

 gardening, the Right Honourable, and 

 Right Reverend Dodor Henry Comptony 

 fome time fmce Lord Bifhop of London. 



To proceed in the properties of thcPropenies, 

 kidney, method of raifing, and the like 5 



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