Pumki?is, Cucurbita pepo.
Cyrnlings. Cucurbita 'oerrucosa.
Squashes. Cucurbita melopepo.
There is an infinitude of other plants and flowers, for an enumeration and fcien- tific defcription of which I muft refer to the Flora Virginica of our great botanift, Dr. Clayton^ publifhed by Gronovius at Leyden, in 1762. This accurate obferver was a native and refident of this ftate, pafled a long life in exploring and defcribing its plants, and is fuppofed to have en- larged the botanical catalogue as much as almoft any man who has lived.
Befides thefe plants, which are native, our farms produce wheat, rye, barley, oats, buck-wheat, broom corn, and Indian corn. The climate fuits rice well enough, where- ever the lands do. Tobacco, hemp, flax, and cotton, are ftaple commodities. In- digo yields two cuttings. The fiik-worm is a native, and the mulberry, proper for its food, grows kindly.
We cultivate alfo potatoes, both the long and the round, turnips, carrots, parf- neps, pumkins, and ground nuts (Arachis.) Our grafles are lucerne^ ft. foin, burnet, timothy, ray and orchard grafs; red, white and yellow clover; greenfwerd, blue grafs, and crab grafs.
The gardens yields mufk-melons, water- melons, tomatas, okra, pomegranates, figs, and the efculent plants of Europe.
The orchards produce apples, pears, cher- ries, quinces, peaches, necftarines, apricots, almonds, and plumbs.
Our quadrupeds have been moftly de- fcribed by Linnaeus and Monf. de Buffon.
Of thefe the mammoth, or big buffalo, as called by the Indians, muft certainly have been the largeft. Their tradition is, that he was