A true & exact history of the island of Barbados : illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places, that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making ... : all cut in copper (1657)
Ligon, Richard, Ogilby, John, 1600-1676, Moseley, Humphrey, d. 1661 · London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley ... · leaf 108
ep, and in a veryfhorttime, there will come forth three or four fprbuts, whereof onehas the precedence, and holds that advantage , ( as the prime Hawkedoes in an Ayery). And as this fprout growes, it fprings from the in-trinfick part of the ftem, and the out-leaves hang down and rot 5 but(fill new… … of the Hand of Barbadoes. the leaves) will be of their full bigneffe, and fo (as others grow) con-tinue that bigneffe, till the lad fprout come forth ; which is the foulof the Plant, and will never be a leafe, but is the (rem upon which thefruit muft grow. About the time the leaves come to their…
Botany · Sugar
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