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Of Arborefcent Plants. Part II. 
This being, as is likely, an Annual Plant, and therefore 
having a large Pith, and very open Net-wor £, is a confpi- 
cuous example of the like Work_{ though more orlcfsopcn, 
yet) obfervable in the woody part of all other Plants wliat- 
(a) See the ioCVCl'. {a) 
Anatomy of Several SPIKES or Heads of MAYZ or Indian- Wheat; 
plants, ch.2. with the Grains, as is not unufual, of three or four colours. 
& 3- TheDefcription of the Plant, with a large Account of its 
Culture, and Ufe, were communicated by Air. Wintbrop 
fometime lince Governourof Connecticut in New England: 
and by me lately publiihed , in a fuccincf but 
(b) Phil, full Relation, ( b ) with fome alteration of the Method. 
Tranf.N. 142 The Plant grows to the height of fix or eight feet 5 
and is joynted like a Cane. ’Tis alfo full of a fweet juyee 
like that ol the Sugar-Cane. On the Spike grow feveral 
ftrong thick Husks, which, before it is ripe, Ihutit clofe up 
round about. Thereby defending it, not only from all 
Weathers, but alfo the Ravine of Birds, to which, the Corn, 
while tender, is a fweet and enticing food. 
The Stalks of this Corn, are good Fodder for Cattel. 
As are alfo the Husks about the Spike. The Indian Women 
Hit the Husks, and weave them into Baskets of feveral 
fiilhions. Of the Juyee above-faid may be made a Syrup 
as fweet as Sugar: which probably, may alfo be made 
of it, by the ufual method. The Indians eat the ripe 
Corn either boil’d 5 or more ufually parched ; of it felf, or, 
as Bread, with Flelh. The green Corn alfo, which, as is 
laid, hath a fweet Taft, being boil’d, dry’d, and kept in 
Bags, and when they eat it, boil’d again, they account a 
principal Dilh. The Englijh, of the ripe Corn, make very 
good Bread: but it muff be mixed nothing ncar-fo ftiff as 
our Wheat-Meal. But the bell fort of Food made hereof, 
they call Samp. Having water’d, and ground it to the big- 
nefs of Rice, and winnow’d or lifted the Hulls from it, 
they boil it tender, and fo with Milk, or with Butyr and 
Sugar, make it a very pleafant Dilh. ’Twas often prescribed 
by Dr. Wilfon to his Patients here in London. The Indians 
that live much upon it, feldom troubled with the Stone. 
The Englijb alfo make very good Beer, both of the Bread\ 
and of the Malt , made of this Corn. But it will not make 
good Malt the ordinary way,becaufe,not without fprouting 
both 
