M^ck Mulberries/which do far excel the red for our Junkets,as 
all our old Books tell us all along down, till within thefe 
1 200 years, we mufl fend for them to Naples or Sicify , or to 
J^erjia^ v/hcncG our Silk- trade came. The White Mulberries 
(as we call themj are for the fineft Silk. 
The Spanijh Pocado requires diligent culture, much Sun,and 
alight and pregnant Garden-foyl. In the modern Latin t he 
are called GU/ides MaUcenJes^ being brought iato 5]p4/» from 
VoUz Malaga, a Province in Jmrica. They report that more 
than a dozen of their huge ^/^^/^//Z» Ships were brought atone 
time to Sevil in Spain, fully fra ghced with thefe Potado s, and 
were foon difperfed all ovtr Spair^, We fay , the Spaniard is 
flew at every ching : But they m^y Cay , The Enghfbmsn in 
many parts of Effgland^ is more flow at the beft Improvements 
of our own Country $ witnefs our want of Viptejards^ of 
Groves^ of Mulberries ^ of \\\t\>zQ.Cbeftnuts^Wallnuts^ Figs^ 
Almonds , which are wanting in mart parts , and do nor refufe 
to grow in ©ur Climate. Mr^Hughes^m his Jmeriean Fhjjician, 
faith, The Porado's of Jamaica^ and of the Leeward Iflands, 
Barbados^ &€. do much exceed Sfanifb Potado's, and are the 
beft, the moft wliofefbm and delicious Root in the whole 
World s thatfomeof the Roots are yellowifl), orof agoldca 
colour, fome white. We wifii again, that we had them of all 
forts at the firft hand, to be tried in light and quick Land , a 
litlefiiclving towards the South. Mufhroms and the Tuberes 
or tubera frotn Libya^v^ttt thechoiceft delicacies of Rome for 
many Ages* 
But I am not at leifure to ferve Luxury 5 yet 'tis better, 
wefliould have the beft at home, than be always at the charges 
to fend for them. And 'tis probable that our own Native foyl 
will make them wholfom for Englijhmen. 
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