16 INTRODUCTION. 



" The Plants of England, as well those of the Fields and Orchards, 

 as those of the Garden that have been brought over hither, suit 

 might}' well with our Soil, and grow here to great Perfection. 



" Our Apples are, without Doubt, as good as those of England, 

 and much fairer to look to, and so are the Pears, but we have not 

 got all the Sorts. 



" Our Peaches do rather excel those of England, and then we 

 have not the Trouble or Expence of Walls for them ; for our Peach 

 Trees are all Standards, and I have had in my own Garden seven 

 or eight Hundred fine Peaches of the Rare-ripes, growing at a Time 

 on one Tree. 



" Our People, of late Years, have run so much upon Orchards, 

 that in a village near Boston, consisting of about forty Families, 

 they made near three Thousand Barrels of Cyder. This was in the 

 Year 1721. And in another Town, of two Hundred Families, in 

 the same year I am credibly inform' d, they made near ten Thou- 

 sand Barrels. Some of our Apple Trees will make six, some have 

 made seven Barrels of Cyder, but this is not common ; and the 

 Apples will } T ield from seven to nine Bushels for a Barrel of C}'der. 

 A good Apple Tree, with us, will measure from six to ten Foot in 

 Girt. I have seen a fine Pearmain, at a Foot from the Ground, 

 measure ten Feet, and four inches round. This Tree, in one Year, 

 has borne thirty eight Bushels (by Measure) of as fine Pearmains, 

 as ever I saw in England. A Kentish Pippin at three Foot from 

 the Ground, seven Foot in Girt ; a Golden Rossetin six Foot 

 round. The largest Apple Tree that I could find, was ten Foot 

 and six Inches round, but this was no Graft. 



4 'An Orange Pear Tree grows the largest and yields the fairest 

 Fruit. I know one of them near forty Foot high, that measures 

 six Foot and six Inches in Girt, a Yard from the Ground, and has 

 borne thirty Bushels at a Time ; and this year I measured an 

 Orange Pear, that grew in my own Orchard, of eleven Inches 

 round the Bulge. I have a Warden Pear Tree, that measures five 

 Foot six Inches round. One of my Neighbors has a Bergamot 

 Pear Tree that was brought from England in a Box, about the 

 Year 1643, that now measures six Foot about, and has borne 

 twenty two Bushels of fine Pears in one Year. About twenty 

 Years since, the Owner took a C}-on, and grafted it upon a common 

 Hedge Pear ; but the Fruit does not prove altogether so good, and 

 the Rind or Skin, is thicker than that of the Original. 



