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is best next. There is the Curran Grape, Cluster Grape, and many 
other kinds of good grapes, and the fruits are deffer or worse accord- 
ing to the place they grow in: If they have much sun, and be well 
ordered, the fruit will be Jde/fer and sooner ripfe.”—Austen’s Treatise 
of Fruit Trees, 1657. 
34. 12. ‘“‘ There are very many kinds of Plums, many more than 
of Cherries. I esteeme the A/ustle Plum one of the best, being 
a faire large black plum, and of an excellent rellish, and the ¢rees 
beare abundantly. The Damazeene also is an excellent fruit. The 
Violet and Premorden Plum-trees are very great bearing trees, and the 
fruits pleasant and good. The White Peare-plum-stocks are accounted 
the best, and the Damson-stocks the worst for grafting upon.”— 
Lbid. p. 57. 
34. 13. ‘“‘ Hurtillberies (= Whortlebetries) called ‘ Hurts’ for 
shortness at Godalming. I suspect this may be connected with 
Hurtmoor, the name of a dale near Godalming.”—Note by Rev. 
W. W. Skeat. ‘‘ ‘ Hurtilberries’ for ‘ whortleberries,’ itself a cor- 
ruption for ‘ myrtleberries.’””—Dr. Prior, Popular Names of British 
Plants, 1870. 
04. 14. “‘ Medlars, called in Normandy and Anjou mesler, from 
Lat. mespilus, but as the verb mesler became in English meddle, so 
this fruit also, although a word of different origin, took a d for an s 
and became medlar.”—TJobid. 
“The Kernells [of medlers] bruised to dust, and drunk in liquor 
‘especially where Parsly roots have been steeped), doe mightily 
drive out stones and gravell from the kidneyes.”—Austen, Treatise 
on Fruit Trees, 1657, p. 84. 
34. 15. “ The Juyce of Mulberries is knowne by experience to be 
a good remedy for a sore mouth, or throat, such as are perfectly 
ripe relax the belly, but the unripe (especially dry’d) are said to 
bind exceedingly, and therefore are given to such as have Lasks and 
Fluxes.” —TIbid. p. 84. 
34. 16. “‘ Peach, in old works spelt Peske, Peesk, Peshe, and 
Peche, O. Fr. pesche, L. Persica, formerly called malum persicum= 
Persian apple, from which the Arabs formed their name for it with 
the prefix é/ or a/,and thence the Spanish alberchigo.” —Dr. R. A. Prior. 
Austen, in his work already quoted, says (p. 58): ‘‘ Of Peaches 
there are divers kinds. I know by experience the Wutmeg and 
Newington Peaches to be excellent fruits, especially the MWutmeg 
Peach.” 
34. 18. Evidently a misprint for Peare-plums, which is the read- 
ing of all the later editions. Austen, in his Treatise on Fruit Trees, 
recommends that Peaches be grafted on plum stocks, such as the 
White Peare-plum-stock. 
34. 19. The word “‘ Quince” preserves only a single letter of its 
criginal form. A passage in the Romaunt of the Rose shows an 
early form of the word, and also exhibits chestnut and cherry in a 
