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The firft, fecond, third, and eighth 

 Sorts are annual Plants : chefe I have 

 feveral times cultivated in a Bed of 

 common Earth, where the Plants 

 have grown very -large ; but I could 

 feldom procure good Seeds from 

 themj for they ieldom came into 

 Flower till the Beginning of Septem- 

 ber, fo that the Frolt deihoyed them 

 before the Seeds were near ripe ; for 

 the hrlf Frolt in the Autumn kills 

 them. 



But if the Seeds of the beft Kinds 

 were lent to the Britijb Colonies in 

 America, thefe Plants might be there 

 Cultivated to the great Advantage of 

 rhe Inhabitants, and be a national 

 Benefit. If fome of the marfhy low 

 Lands in Carolina and Virginia were 

 employed for this Purpofe, there can 

 be noDcubt of the Succeis; provided 

 there were proper Care taken in the 

 Burning of the Plant, to make the 

 Pot-afh : for as to the Growth of 

 both the Plants, wnich are allowed 

 to be the belt, I have lent over their 

 Seeds, which have grown as well in 

 the Britijb Colonies, as in their na- 

 tural Soil, and in a much lefs time: 

 and there is very little Trouble in 

 the Culture of thefe Plants 5 for the 

 Seeds mull be fown where the Plants 

 are to remain : if they are fown in 

 the Spring, the Plant will be fit to 

 cut in nine or *eu Weeks; fo the 

 only thing to be obferved in the 

 Culture of it is, not to fufKr Weeds 

 to grow among the Plants; for where 

 this happens, the Weeds will be cut 

 with the Herb, and it will then be 

 difficult to feparate them ; fo that if 

 they are burnt with the Plant, it will 

 greatly lefTen the Value of the Pot- 

 afh. The not regarding of this, I 

 fear, has been a great Detriment to 

 the Inhabitants of America, by lemm- 

 ing the Value of feveral Com modi - 

 lies, and particularly the Indigo. 



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KARAT AS, The Penguin cr 

 wild Ananas. 



The Charailers are ; 



It bath a tub ulcus bdi-jhapcd Fh^ m 

 er, which is divided into three Parts 

 at the ll-jutb , fran wbcfe Calyfl 

 arifes tie Point al, fixed (ike a ij 

 in the binder Part of the Ffa*wtr\ 

 which afterward becomes a fiejby ah 

 Pttfl conical Fri.it, which is di-videi 

 by Mtmbrams into three Cells, tbatt 

 are full of obh,;g Seeds. 



There is but one Sort of this PJaqS 

 at p relent known ; which ii, 



Karat as foiiis altijfimis, angii- 

 fiijfunis tj? aeuleatis. Plum. AWv 

 Gen. The wild Ananas or Pen- 

 guin. 



Father Plumier ha3 made a greaa 

 Miilake in the Figure and Beicrip* 

 tion of the Characters of this PJajtf* 

 and the Caraguata ; for he has jcin-* 

 ed the Flower of the Caragtt it* tzr 

 the Fruit of the Karat as, and <vicr 

 <verfa ; and this has led many Per- 

 fons into Miftakes ; who have joined 

 the Bromelia and Ananas to :hi* 

 Genus, making them ail of the law 

 Genus ; whereas, by ti.eir Chara- 

 cters, they lliould be Separated. 



This Plant ia vtxy common m 

 the W.Jl- Indies, where the Juice of 

 its Fruit is often put into Punch, be- 

 ing of a lharp acid i-iavour. i here 

 is alfo a Wine made of the Juice of 

 this Fruit, which is vtry Urong ; bus 

 it will not keep good very long ; to 

 is only for prefent Uie. This VViEW" 

 is very intoxicating, and heats the 

 Blood ; therefore ihould be drank 

 very fparingly. 



in Engl., nd this Flant is preferved 

 as a Cur;ofity ; for the Frujt fekloitft 

 arrives to any Degree of Perfeclicii 

 in this Country ; tho' it has often 

 produced Fru;t in England, whim 

 fomeiimes has ripened pretty weii ; 

 but if it were to ripen as ikoiou'gh!/ 



