Bvolutfon of Dortf culture 



France, says : "Vegetables as cabbages, 

 turnips, onions, and carrots are cheap and 

 in abundance. Moreover there are quanti- 

 ties of wild nuts, chestnuts and hazel- 

 nuts. The fruit is small but wonderfully 

 palatable. I am assured that the woods 

 are full of strawberries in their season. 

 No one doubts that the vine will do very 

 well ; some plants that have been set out 

 in the country have put forth." 



We have already noticed the earliest 

 introduction of the cultivation of fruit, 

 especially in the Plymouth and Mas- 

 sachusetts plantations. Few records 

 exist of the horticultural progress during 

 the succeeding one hundred years, ex- 

 cept the statement that the gardens of 

 New England, fifty years after the settle- 

 ment of the country, were as well stocked 

 as they were many years after this, until 

 a paper was published in the Philosophi- 

 cal Transactions y communicated in 1726 

 by Hon. Paul Dudley, in which he speaks 

 of the size and cultivation of fruit and 

 vegetables in Roxbury, but makes no 



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