i 4 i 
The great Clot Bur} 
Muffin, with the white Flower. 2 
Q. What became of the influence of thofe Planets that 
produce and govern thefe Plants before this time! 
I have now done with fuch Plants as grow wild in the 
Country in great plenty, (although I have not mentioned 
all) I mall now in the Fifth place give you to under [87] 
ftand what Englifh Herbs we have growing in our Gardens 
that profper there as well as in their proper Soil, and of 
fuch as do not, and alfo of fuch as will not grow there at 
all. 
5. Of fuch Garden Herbs {among/1 lis) as do thrive there, 
and of fuch as do not? 
CAbbidge growes there exceeding well. 
Lett ice. 
1 "Great burre-docke, or clott-burre" (Gerard, p. 809), — Lappa major, Gaertn. 
"About barns," — Cutler (1785), /. c. 
2 "White-floured mullein" (Gerard, p. 773), — perhaps Vcrbascum Lychnitis, 
L. ; which is adz>eniive in some parts of the United States (Gray, Man., p. 283), 
but is not otherwise known to have made its appearance in New England. Great 
mullein ( V. Thapsus, L.) was "common" in Cutler's time. The moth-mullein 
(V. Blatlaria, L.) he only knew "by roadsides in Lynn" (/. c, p. 419). Other 
plants referable to this list of naturalized weeds are " wild sorrel," p. 42 ; Polygo- 
num Persicaria, p. 43 ; St. John's wort, speedwell, chickweed, male fluellin, cat- 
mint, and clot-bur, p. 44; yarrow, and oak of Jerusalem, p. 46; pimpernel, and 
toadflax, p. 48; and wild purslain, and woad-waxen, p. 51. See also spearmint, 
and ground-ivy, p. 89; and elecampane, celandine, and tansy, p. 90. 
3 The earliest, almost the only account that we have of the gardens of our 
fathers, after they had settled themselves in their New England, and had tamed 
