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firft, which are nearefl the Stem , many of my Grappes 
have the Grains neareft the extremity or pointed eod,buc 
half or three quarters rips $ bur, it may be, as far as the 
1 5th or 1 6th, and in feme to the %oih Grain from the 
Butt<end are quite ripe, So then, if you will for your fancy 
compute, what would certainly have been, had I fowU 
them in time,that each Grain give but three ftrorg c: tunsV 
(and let the reft be cut off ) and each of thefe Stems three 
Grappes ( but fome of them oeve£ fail "of four) andtach 
Grappe Z40 Grams, that makes zi6o for one : Profit 
enough ot 'all Conference. But there are fbme things very 
odd in the manner of its growth, tothofe who have not 
cultivated it, *of which you will pardon me the recital. 
It firft fends up a thick reedy Stalk about a Yard high, 
with long Leaves of a very thick woody fubftance,~.ancfr 
half a Yard long enwrapping the Stalk juft like the Iris. 
At the top of this Stalk, when the Leaves open, there 
appears twenty or thirty Ears, as it were, of our unripe 
Wheat ; but this, when it is opened, muft be plucked 
away, for it is nothing but the Flower ; and what is mod 
furprifmg, the Fruit comes not where the Flower was, 
but oa the inner-fide of every Leaf, where it jqyns to the 
item, comes forth after a time, N a large flioot, thicker 
than ones Wrift, at the end of which hangs out a bundle 
of fine firings, like a Horfe-tail, which is the true Flower 
of the Plant : as this withers, the Fruit grows on within, 
lacing envelop'd in a great number of Leaves, which when 
they are withered, the Fruk is ripe, (but is never naked 
while on the ftalks) and muft then betaken off, and hung 
up to dry, or kept in Chefts, It will ferve for all the 
Ufes of the White Pea, either in Bread (with Wheat) or 
Soupe, or Pudding, or with Pork. I reckon that eight 
or ten Grappes of it fown the next Year, will furnifli me, 
God willing, with feme Barrels of it. It mull: be earth'd 
up with the Howe twice or thrice in growing. 
I am not yet ready to give you an Account of the Hy- 
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