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with a foft Leaf, and a white 

 Flower. 



2. Ct/CURBITA falcata fgura, 

 folio molli, fore alio. C. B. The 

 jickle-mapedGourd,with a loft Leaf, 

 and a white Flower. 



3. Cucurbita latior, folio mclli, 

 fore albo. J. B. FJat Gourd, with 

 a foft Leaf, and a white Flower, com- 

 monly called Squafh.es. 



4. Cu CURE IT a lagenaria, fore 

 nlbo, folio molli. C. B. Bottle-lhaped 

 Gourd, with a foft Leaf, and a white 

 Flower. 



There are feveral other Varieties 

 of this Plant, which are annually 

 brought from America, where are 

 numberlefs Varieties of thefe, and 

 of Pumkins and Calabafhes : but 

 thefe Sorts are fo apt to fport, that 

 there is no Certainty of their pro- 

 ducing the fame (haped Fruit for two 

 Years together, unlefs it is that with 

 the long Fruit, which I do not remem- 

 ber to hav e fecn change or alter ; but 

 all the others will run from one 

 Shape to another, fo as rarely to pro- 

 duce the fame as thofe wnich the 

 Seeds were faved from. 



They may be all propagated by 

 fowing their Seeds in March on an 

 Hot bed ; and when the Plants come 

 up, they fhould be tran (planted on 

 another moderate Bed, where they 

 fhould have a great deal of Air to 

 ftrengthen them ; and when they 

 have got four or five Leaves, they 

 ihould be tranfplanted into Holes 

 made upon an old Dunghil, or fome 

 fuch Place, allowing them a great 

 deal of room to run ; for fome of 

 the Sorts will fpread to a great 

 Diftan.ce. I have meafured a fmgle 

 Plant, which had run upwards of 

 forty Feet from the Hoie, and had 

 produced a great Number of Side- 

 branches ; fo that if the Plant had 

 beea encouraged, and all trie Side- 

 branches permitted to remain, I dare 



fay it would have fairly overfprea 

 twenty Rods of Ground : which t 

 fome People, may feem like a Rc 

 mance ; yet I can affirm it to b : 

 Fact. But what is this to the Ac 

 count printed in the 1 ranfudions c 

 the Rcxal Society, which was commu 

 nicated to them by Paul Dudley, Ek | 

 hom New -England, wherein Men 1 

 tion is made of a fingle Plant of thi 

 Kind, which, without any Culture 

 fpread over a large Spot of Crounc 

 and from which Plant were ga.here 1 

 two hundred and fixty Fruits, eacr 

 one with another, as big as an Flali 

 peck ! 



Thefe Fruits are by fome Pcopl 

 gathered while young, and boiled | 

 afterwards ftripping off the outer Co • 

 ver, and buttering them, they ea 

 them with Meat, and are by torn 

 mightily eflcemed ; efpecially th 

 flrit Sort, which is counted by fa 

 the fweeteft : of this Kind I hav< 

 feen. a fmgle Fruit upwards of fi: 

 Feet long, which has ripen'd per 

 fettly well. But this is not ccmmoi 

 with us ; tho* I have heard of thei 

 being longer in other Countries 

 This Sort requires to be fown earl] 

 in the Sprii g, and brought forwarc 

 under Bell or Hand-glaffcs, other wif< 

 they feldom arrive to half their Ma 

 turity. 



There are fome People who plan 

 thefe Plants by the Sides of Arbours 

 over which they train the Vines ; fc 

 that in a ihorc time they will covei 

 the whole Arbour, and aiiord a firong 

 Shade ; and upsn fome of thefe Ar- 

 bours I have feen the longelt Fruit : 

 there are other*, who plant them 

 near Walls, Pale-, or Hedges to 

 wh'ch they fallen theVines,and train 

 them to a great Height : the orange- 

 fhaped Gourd is the Sort which -is 

 molt commonly fo planned for the 

 Ornament of its Fruit, which has a 

 pretty Effect, efpecially when feen at 



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