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trees by Goodman Stoylyon to your selfe. 

 I suppose they will, most of them, be 

 planted in the north end of your orchard. 

 I would have sent more if I had thought 

 there were a place. I haue alsoe sent 

 Thomas Bayley thirty grafted trees, as 

 hee desired mee." 1 



From this period up to the middle of 

 the seventeenth century, there are few 

 references to the horticulture of the New 

 England plantations. Josselyn, who came 

 to this country in 1665, on his second 

 voyage, in his account enumerates the 

 English towns upon the coast of Rhode 

 Island and Connecticut followed by those 

 on the Connecticut River, and those be- 

 longing to the Plymouth and Massachu- 

 setts Colonies, but refers to the orchards 

 only as follows : " Our fruit Trees pros- 

 per abundantly, Apple trees, Pear-trees, 

 Quince-trees, Cherry-trees, Plum-trees, 

 Barberry-trees. I have observed with ad- 

 miration, that the Kernels sown or the 



1 Mass. Hist. Collections, 4th series, vol. vi., p. 

 490. 



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