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 The gardens produce the black and green grapes, figs, muk melons, water melons, cucumbers, gourds, s, Englih, American, and Wet India beans and peas, cabbages, carrots, turnips, parnips, lettuces, radihes, hore-radih, aparagus, artichokes, pinage, celery, onions,, thyme, age, mint, rue, balm, parley, and all orts of vegetables and herbs, all which grow in this iland in great perfection.

The flowers are, roes, tuberoes, pinks,, and everal other orts peculiar to the iland; which latter grow pontaneouly; ome are very curious, and mot of them have a very odoriferous mell.

The enitive plant grows there pontaneouly, and in great abundance; alo the, and the latter is often fatal to hores, cattle, and heep, who chance to bite of it in ing;