Evolution of Iborticultute 



Succors planted produce as fair & good 

 fruit, without grafting, as the tree from 

 whence they were taken : the Countrey 

 is replenished with fair and large Or- 

 chards. It was affirmed by one Mr Wool- 

 cut (a magistrate in Connecticut Colony) 

 at the Captains 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. Sy- 

 der is very plentiful in the Countrey, 

 ordinarily sold for ten shillings a Hogs- 

 head. 



"The Quinces, Cherries, Damsons, set 

 the Dames a work, Marmalad and pre- 

 served Damsons is to be met with in 

 every house. It was not long before I 

 left the Countrey that I made Cherry 

 wine, and so may others, for there are 

 good store of them both red and black. 

 Their fruit trees are subject to two dis- 

 eases, the Meazels, which is when they 

 are burned and scorched with the Sun, 

 and lowsiness, when the woodpeckers 

 job holes in their bark : the way to cure 

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