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sweetnesse and goodnesse to the English 

 Nut, having no bitter pill. There is like- 

 wise a tree in some part of the Countrey, 

 that beares a nut as bigge as a small 

 peare. . . . The Cherrie trees yeeld 

 great store of Cherries, which grow on 

 clusters like grapes : they be much smaller 

 than our English Cherrie, nothing neare 

 so good if they be not very ripe : they so 

 furre the mouth that the tongue will 

 cleave to the roofe, and the throate wax 

 horse with swallowing those red Bullies 

 (as I may call them) being little better in 

 taste. English ordering may bring them 

 to be an English Cherrie, but yet they 

 are as wilde as the Indians. The Plummes 

 of the Countrey be better for Plummes 

 than the Cherries be for Cherries : they be 

 blacke and yellow about the bignesse of 

 a Damson, of a reasonable good taste. 

 The white thorne affords hawes as bigge 

 as an English Cherrie, which is esteemed 

 above a Cherrie for his goodnesse and 

 pleasantnesse to the taste." 1 



1 New England Prospect t p. 18. 

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