BOSTON AND VICINITY. 



near Charles Street, being a portion of the six acres 

 reserved from the fifty acres which he sold to the 

 inhabitants of Shawmut, and from which he removed 

 in 1634 to what is now Lonsdale, Rhode Island, where 

 may still be seen, near his favorite resort, " Study Hill," 

 remains of trees planted by him, and from which were 

 disseminated apples, now under cultivation, by the name 

 of Blackstone. The first planting of fruits by the 

 colonists of Massachusetts Bay, we believe, was the 

 orchard of Gov. John Endicott, of Salem, about the 

 year 1628, a pear tree of which still survives and 

 bears fruit at the present time. From this nursery we 

 find that as late as 1648 Endicott sold 500 apple trees 

 to William Trask, for which he received two hundred 

 and fifty acres of land, an acre of land for two apple 

 trees, a noble illustration of the appreciation in which 

 fruits were held by the colonists at that time. 



The planting of fruits by the colonists under Gover- 

 nor Winthrop, was, we presume, soon after their arrival, 

 or the year 1630, for we find in the outfits of their 

 cargo, seeds and stones of fruits particularly men- 

 tioned. 



We find that, next to Blackstone, Governor Winthrop 

 was the most prominent in the horticulture of Boston, 

 having, in addition to his farms at Governor's Island, a 

 garden opposite the foot of School street, his house 

 being a little north of the Old South Church, and was 

 demolished by the British in 1775. Winthrop had 

 frequent correspondence with Eudicott in regard to 

 fruit trees, as had his son John, Governor of Con- 

 necticut. Among the early records in regard to the 

 production of fruit by the colonists, is an account 

 of a good store of pippins from Governor Winthrop's 

 garden. 



From the early settlements on our coast orchards 



