All manner of Plants known in Europe grow in their Gardens: The Water-Lemmons, no less pleasing to the Palate than healthful when grown ripe; they are about the bigness of an indifferent Cabbage: the English press a Juice out of them, which if it did not turn sowre in a short time, might well be compar’d with Spanish Wine.
The Calabashes which grow there, made hollow, serve for Water-cups.
Pumpions are also there in great abundance.
Wheat.
Their Wheat though Set six Foot deep, grows very speedily: Kidney-Beans being planted amongst it, they will wind about the Stalks thereof.
Pease.
Gray Pease grow here so fast, that they gather them twice a year.
In one Field Physical Herbs and Indigo grow wild in great abundance; and Barley springs above a Mans heighth.
Moreover, there are divers sorts of sweet-smelling Flowers.
Soyl of the Mountains.