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ship I came home in, that he made five hundred hogsheads of syder 

 out of his own orchard in one year. Syder is very plentiful in the 

 countrey, ordinarily sold for ten shillings a hogshead. At the tap- 

 houses in Boston, I have had an ale quart, spiced and sweetened with 

 sugar, for a groat." 



" The quuices, chcnies, damsons, set the dames a work ; maiunalade 

 and preserved damsons are to be met with in every house." 



Among the islands of Massachusetts Bay, he mentions " the Gov- 

 ernor's Garden, where the fii'st apple trees in the comitrey were plant- 

 ed, and a vineyard." 



He describes Dorchester as " lun iug houses to the number of two 

 hundred and more, beautified with fair orchai'ds and gardens." Rox- 

 bury, as beuig " a fan and handsome comitrey town, the streets large, 

 the inliabitants rich, replenished with orchards and gardens." Ded- 

 ham, as " aboundmg with garden fruit." Charlestown, as having a 

 " market place not far from the water side, surrounded with houses, 

 forth of which issue two streets orderly built, and beautified with or- 

 chards and gardens." Lynn and Ipswich are said to have similar or- 

 naments. 3 Mass. Hist. Col. vol. iii. pages 320, 336. 



IV. GOVERKOR WiM'HROp's GaRDEN. 



Gov. John Winthrop, m consideration of the intended marriage of 

 his son Adam, with Elizabeth Glover, grajited the Governor's Island 

 to Hem-y Dmister, President of Harvard College, in trust, for the use 

 of Adam and his wife, and their joint heirs, remainder to Adam and 

 his heirs, by an indenture, dated February 1, 1641-2. The resei-va- 

 tion to tlie governor, and his wife Margaret, of" one third of the ap- 

 ples, pears, grapes, and plums yearlj^ growmg," shows that the orchard 

 was flom'ishing at that time. — Savage's JVinthrop, vol. 1, page 68. 



V. The Endicott Pear Tree. 



Tradition connects the planting of the Endicott pear tree and the 

 foundation of Salem, with the same date, 1628. Historical evidence 

 renders it certam, that the existence of the tree could not have been 

 so early as the origin of the first town of Massachusetts. 



The late reverend and learned Doct. William Bentley, " desnous," 

 in his own words, " to honor the man, who, above all others, deserved 



