#f The Htftory of BookI. 



leaves ftart up, making a great noife, and clofe together into 

 the figure of a Globe. 



Some years fince there was to be feen in the Kings Garden at 

 Paris a Senfitiveflwub, valued at a very great rate : But fome 

 body having advis'dthe putting of it in the bottom of a Well 

 to keep it from the cold, and the ftiarpnefs of Winter, it there 

 miferably perifh*d 3 to the great regret of the Curious. 



Of fever al forts of TEASE. 



THefe Iflands are alfo fruitful in bearing all forts of Pulfe, 

 fuch as are feveral forts of Peafe and Beans : The Savages 

 call them by the general name of Jldanconti. 



The Peafe are in a manner of the fame kinds as thofe growing 

 in Europe , thofe only excepted, which are gather J d from a 

 little fhrub , which is about the height of Broom , and hath 

 fmall, green, and narrow leaves : it bears Peafe in cods or hulks, 

 which are faftened to its branches : they are green and lefs 

 then the ordinary ones, of an excellent tafte, and fo eafily 

 boil'd, that they need but a walm or two: they are called io 

 the Iflands, The Peafe of Angola^ probably, becaufe the feed 

 was brought from that Country. 



There is another kind known by the name of Peafe, which 

 yet have the figure of Beans : they are fmall enough 5 and of 

 this kind there are fome white, fome black , fome red or 

 brown , all very excellent , and are ripe in three moneths. 

 Thefe in S. Chriftophers are called Englijh Peafe. 



BEANS. 



OF Beans and Fafels there grow in the Caribbies feveral 

 kinds, not to be feen in the Weftern parts of Europe. The 

 moit common are white, to which the firft Inhabitants gave an 

 undecent name, by reafon of their figure : their fruit may be 

 eaten fix weaks after they are planted : others are of feveral 

 pretty colours , as thofe which are called Roman-Beans , or 

 Lombardy-Beans. 



But the moft considerable for their rarity are thofe called the 

 Seven-years Beans ^ becaufe the fame ftalk bears feven years one 

 after another, and fpreads it felf over Trees, Rocks, and 

 whatever it can faften on , and what is to be yet further ad- 

 mir'd is, that at all times during the faid term of years it bears 

 flowers, green fruit, and ripe fruit : So that he who fees it, 



— may well admire 



Springy Summer ^ Autumn in one bough conspire. 



The fame thing is affirmed of a certain Tree in Egypt, called 



Pharaohs 



