THE NEW EARTH 



land. In 1562, came oranges, planted by the 

 Spaniards where now stands St. Augustine, 

 Florida, and about the same time the Jesuit 

 fathers, in the Great Lakes region, introduced 

 the pear. The first vineyard came in 1610, 

 planted by Lord Delaware, in Maryland, 

 though the native grapes that were found by 

 some of the early explorers in the Virginia 

 region were pronounced fully equal to the best 

 European grapes. The colonists, in New Eng- 

 land, found many wild berries and grapes that 

 delighted their hearts. One, William Wood, is 

 quoted as reporting back to England in 1629: 

 "There is likewise Strawberries in abun- 

 dance, verie large ones, some being two inches 

 about; one may gather halfe a bushell in a 

 forenoone. In other seasons there be Goose- 

 berries, Bilberries, Resberries, Treacleberries, 

 Hurtleberries, Currants, which, being dried in 

 the Sunne, are little inferior to those that our 

 Grocers sell in England. The Cherrie trees 

 yield great store of Cherries, which grow on 

 clusters like grapes; they be much smaller 

 than our English cherry, nothing near so good 

 if they be not fully ripe; they so furre the 

 mouth that the tongue will cleave to the roofe 



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