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2. Of fuck Plants as are proper to the Country. 
To ripen any Impojlume or Sivelling. For fore Mouths. 
The Ncw-Englands flanding DifJi. 
INdian Wheat, of which there is three forts, yellow, 
red, and blew; the blew is commonly Ripe before 
the other a Month: Five or Six Grains of Indian Wheat 
hath produced in one year 600. It is hotter than our 
Wheat and clammy; excellent in Cataplafns to ripen 
any Swelling or impoflume. The deco6lion of the blew 
Corn, is good to wafh fore Mouths with: It is light of 
digeftion, and the EnglifJi make a kind of Loblolly of it 
[53] to eat with Milk, which they call Sampe\ they beat 
it in a Morter, and lift the flower out of it: the remainder 
the} 7 call Hommincy, which they put into a Pot of two or 
three Gallons, with Water, and boyl it upon a gentle Fire 
till it be like a Hafty Pudden; they put of this into Milk, 
and fo eat it. Their Bread alfo they make of the Hommi- 
ney fo boiled, and mix their Flower with it, caft it into a 
deep Bafon in which they form the Loaf, and then turn 
it out upon the Peel, and prefently put it into the Oven 
before it fpreads abroad; the Flower makes excellent 
Puddens. 1 
A pleasant enough illustration of what taught classical husbandry, — " ulmis 
adjungere vitcs." — Georg., i. 2. 
1 See also the Voyages, p. 73. "It is almost incredible," says Higginson 
(New-England's Plantation, /. c, p. 118), "what great gaine some of our English 
planters have had by our Indian corne. Credible persons have assured me, — 
and the partie himselfe avouched the truth of it to me, — that, of the setting of 
