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crease. Also mulberries, plums, rasberries, cor- 

 rants, chesnuts, filbercls, walnuts, smalnuts, hurtle- 

 berries, and hawes of whitethorn, neere as good as 

 our cherries in England ; they grow in plentie 

 here." 



Governor Endicott, whose horticultural prosperi- 

 ty is thus commemorated, added to the vineyard and 

 pea-garden, at some later period, the orchard, of 

 which one venerable survivor still bears the patri- 

 archal honors of two centuries, in green old age.^ 



Master Graves, in his letter appended to " New 

 England's Plantation,'' gives a glowing description 

 of the luxuriance of vegetation, in 1629. 



" Thus much I can affirme in generall, that I 

 never came to a more goodly country in all my life, 

 all things considered. If it hath not at any time 

 been husbanded, yet it is very beautifull in open 

 lands mixed with goodly woods, and again open 

 plains, in some places five hundred acres, some 

 places more, some lesse, not much troublesome for 

 to cleare for the plough to go in ; no place barren 

 but on the tops of the hills : the grasse and weedes 

 grow up to a man's face ; in the lowlands and by 

 fresh rivers, aboundance of grass, and large med- 

 dowes without any trees or shrubbe to hinder the 

 scythe. I never saw such, except in Hungaria, unto 

 which I alwayes parallel this countrie, in allmost 

 all respects : for every thing that is here eyther 

 sowne or planted, prospereth far better than in Old 

 England. The increase of corne is here far beyond 

 expectation, as I have seene here by experience in 

 barley, the which, because it is so much above your 



(1) See note V. 



