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Honour, with timers Lordes, Knights, and Gentlemen of 

 good worth, that haue generally applauded the same; or 

 leaue it heere to worke out his owne credit in his due time, 

 because it is rich, and of a strong boiling nature/' 



In his chapter of " Secrets in the ordering of Trees and 

 Plants," he alludes to a gardener of the name of Maister An- 

 drew Hill, or to his garden, no less than twenty-three times; 

 and frequently to one of the name of Maister Pointer,* of 



Twickenham. Also to one of the name of Colborne; and to a 



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parson Simson. He thus concludes this chapter: — " Heere I 

 will conclude with a pretty conceit of that delicate knight, Sir 

 Francis Carew; who, for the better accomplishment of his 

 royall entertainemet of our late Queene of happy memory, 

 at his house at Beddington, led her Maiestie to a Cherrie 

 tree, whose fruite hee had of purpose kept backe from ripe- 

 ning, at the least one month after all Cherries had taken 

 their farewell of England. This secret he performed, by 

 straining a Tent or cover of canvas ouer the whole tree, 

 and wetting the same now and then with a scoope or 

 home, as the heate of the weather required; and so, by 

 with-holding the sunne-beames from reflecting vppon the 

 berries, they grew both great, and were very long be- 

 fore they had gotten their perfect cherrie-colour: and when 

 hee was assured of her Maiesties comming, he remoued 

 the Tent, and a few sunny daies brought them to their full 

 maturitie." 



* Gerarde, speaking of good sorts of apples and pears, thus mentions the 

 above named Pointer: — "Master Richard Pointer lias them all growing in 

 his ground at Twickenham, near London, who is a most cunning and curious 

 grafter and planter of all manner of rare fruits; and also in the ground of 

 an excellent grafter and painful planter, Master Henry Banbury, of Touthil- 

 street, near unto Westminster; and likewise in the ground of a diligent and 

 most affectionate lover of plants, Master Warner, neere Horsely Down, by 

 London; and in divers other grounds about London." 



