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though the cheese-like nut. From the O. Fr. Chastazgne, and the 
Ital. Casfagna, we learn its true derivation, namely from Cas/anea 
in Thessaly, its native place. ’ 
34. 7. ‘‘Cornet plums”=cornel plums; called also cornel cherry. 
O. Fr. cornille, now cornouille, L. Lat. cornolium, from Lat. cornus=a 
cornel cherry tree. 
34. 8. ‘The Damasco-plum is a good fruit and the trees beare 
well.”—Austen’s Treatise on Fruit Trees, 1657. 
34. 9. Andrew Boorde, in his Introduction of Knowledge, ed. 
Furnivall, p. 283, says: ‘‘ #ylberdes be better than hasell nuttes ; yf 
they be newe, and taken from the tree, and the skyn or the pyth 
pulled of, they be nutrytyue, and doth increase fatnes.” 
34. 10. ‘Goose beries.”, Dr. R. A. Prior says: ‘From the 
Flemish kroes or kruys berie, Swed. krusbaér, a word that bears the two 
meanings of ‘ cross-’ and ‘ frizzle-berry,’ but was given to this fruit 
with the first meaning, in reference to its triple spine, which not 
unfrequently presents the form of a cross. This equivocal word 
was misunderstood and taken in its other sense of ‘ frizzle-berry,’ 
and translated into German and herbalist Latin as ‘ kraiisel-beere,’ 
and ‘ava crispa. The Fr. grosedlle and Span. grosel/la are corrup- 
tions of Ger. kraiise/.” 
34. 11. ‘Some Authors affirme that there have been Vine-yards 
in England in former times, though they be all destroyed long 
since. Divers places retaine the name of Vine yards still, at Brom- 
well Abby in Norfolke and at Elie in Cambridgshiere which afforded 
Wine ; what else is the meaning of these old Rimes ? 
‘Quatuor sunt Elie, Lanterna, Capella Mariz 
Et molendinum, nec non dans Vinea vinum.’ 
Englished thus : 
‘Foure things of Elie Towne much spoken are, 
The Leaden Lanthorn, Maries Chappell rare, 
The mighty Mil-hill in the Minstre field, 
And fruitful Vine-yards which sweet wine doe yeeld.’ 
And doubtlesse men might plant Vines with good successe, to make 
good wine even with us. There are many kinds of Vines, but I 
know none so good, and fit for our climate as the Parsley Vine or 
Canada Grape, we see by experience yearly it beares abundance of 
fruit unto perfection. And whosoever would plant Vines in England 
I think he cannot meet with a better kind than the Parsley Vine 
both for dearing and goodnesse. The Fox grape is a faire large Fruit 
and a very great bearer although not of so much esteem as divers 
others. The Frantiniack Grape is of great accompt with many, and 
is a speciall fruit where it comes to perfect ripenesse, which it 
hardly does, except the Vine be set upon the Souwth-wall where it 
may have much sun. The Red and White Muskadine Grape are 
speciall fruits and beare very well, and come to perfect ripenesse if 
the Vine grow upon the Sou¢h-wall or upon the Lasfe-wall which 
