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translation. A list of names of pears in his handwriting is also 

 preserved by his descendants, which shows how much attention 

 he gave to this fruit. Bulleyn, in his work on Health,"^ mentions 

 a "kind of peares growing in the City of Norwich, called black 

 friers' peare — very delicious and pleasant, and no lesse profitable." 

 "A phisition of the same citye called doctoure Marseilde, said he 

 thought those peares without all comparison were the best that 

 grow in any place of England." 



Bulleyn also remarks on the cherries growing in Norfolk. 

 " In the county of Kent be growing great plentye of the fruite. 

 So are there in a towne near unto Norwich, called Ketreinham."t 

 It is probably to the influence of the Huguenots in these two 

 counties, that the improvement in fruit culture — especially of the 

 cherry — is owing. To these foreigners we may also ascribe the 

 advance in hop-growing, which about this time was coming into 

 favour. Several varieties of cherry were grown ; the best known 

 were the Flanders or Kentish, the Spanish, " Gascoigne," and 

 Morello, also a variety called " Luke Warde's cherry, because he 

 was the first that brought the same out of Italy." % Parkinson 

 describes thirty-five named varieties. Sir Hugh Piatt gives an 

 account of what he calls " a conceit of that delicate knight," Sir 

 Francis Carew, at Beddington, when Queen Elizabeth visited him 

 there. He covered a cherry tree with canvas kept damp, to 

 retard the fruit, only removing " the tent when assured of her 

 Majesties coming, so that she had cherries at least one moneth 

 after all cherries had taken their farewell of England." 



The garden or tame sort " of Plummes are of diuers kindes, 

 some white, some yellow, some blacke, some of the colour of a 

 chesnet, and some of a l3'ght or clear redde ; and some great, and 

 some small ; some sweet and dry, some fresh and sharpe, wherof 

 eche kinde hath a particular name. The wilde Plummes are 

 least of al, and are called slose, bullies, and snagges." § It is 

 evident from this description that the number of plums had 

 greatly increased. John Tradescant was a great grower of plums, 

 as of all fruit. He || " hath wonderfully laboured to obtain all the 



* A ne-we Book entituled the Goiiernevient ofHcaltlie. William Bulleyn, 



1558. 



t Ketteringham. + Gerard. § Lyte's Herbal. \\ Parkinson. 



