A true & exact history of the island of Barbadoes : illustrated with a map of the island, as also the principal trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawn out by their several and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the several houses, rooms, and other places, that are used in the whole process of sugar-making ... all cut in copper (1673)
Ligon, Richard · London : Printed and are to be sold by Peter Parker ... and Thomas Guy ... · leaf 98
und, fix inches deep, and in a veryfhort time, there will com^e forth three or four fprouts, whereof one hasthe .precedence, and holdsthat advantage, fas the prime Hawke doesin an Ayery.J And as this fpiout growes, it fprings from the mtrin-fick partoftheftem, and the out-leaves hang down and rot 5… … of the Ifland of Barbadoes. 81 the leaves) will be of their full bignefs^and Co ( as others grow Jcon-fmue thatbigoefsa till the laftfproutcome forth 5 which is the foulofthePlantj and will never be a ieafj but is the ftem upon wh ich thefruit muft grow. About the time the leaves come to their full…
Botany · Sugar
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