8 INTRODUCTION. 



John Josseryn, who styled himself " gentleman," made a voyage 

 to New England in 1638 and 1639, and another in 1663, when he 

 sojourned till 1671 ; and in his account of these two vo}*ages, 

 especially the latter, and in his New-Englands Rarities Dis- 

 covered, he gives a fuller, but, unfortunately, a less trustworthy 

 account, than that of Wood. 1 



" The plants in New England," he says, " for the variety, num- 

 ber, beauty, and vertues may stand in Competition with the plants 

 of any Countrey in Europe. Johnson hath added to Gerard's 

 Herbal 300, and Parkinson mentioneth many more ; had they been 

 in New-England they might have found 1000 at least never heard 

 of nor seen by any Englishman before : 'Tis true, the country hath 

 no Bonerets or Tartar lambs, no glittering coloured Tuleps; but 

 here you have the American Mary-Gold, the Earth-nut bearing a 

 princely Flower, the beautiful leaved Pirola, the honied Colibry, 

 &c." 2 



"Red-Lilly growes all over the Countrey amongst the bushes." 8 



"Our fruit-Trees prosper abundantly, Apple-trees, Pear-trees, 

 Quince-trees, Cherry-trees, Plum-trees, Barberry -trees. I have 

 observed with admiration that the Kernels sown or the Succors 

 planted produce as fair & good fruit without graffing as the Tree 

 from whence they were taken : the Countre} 7 is replenished with fair 

 and large Orchards. It was affirmed bj r one Mr. Woolcut (a magis- 

 trate in Connecticut Colony) at the Captain's Messe (of which I 

 was) aboard the 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 

 spic'd and sweetened with Sugar for a groat. . . . 



"The Quinces, Cherries, Damsons, set the Dames a work, Mar- 

 malad and preserved Damsons is to be met with in every house. 

 It was not long before I left the Countre} 7 that I made Cherry wine, 

 and so may others, for there are good store of them both red and 

 black." 4 



Josselyn describes with much minuteness many of the plants 

 which he observed, classifying them as 1st, Such plants as are 



1 The quotations from the Voyages are taken from the reprint in the Massachusetts 

 Historical Society's Collections, Third Series, Vol. III., and those from the Rarities, from 

 Tuckerman's edition ; the references in both cases being to the original pages. 



1 Second Voyage, p. 69. 



Ibid., p. 79. 



Ibid., pp. 189, 190. 



