HORTICULTURAL PROGRESS 



and the throat wax hoarse with swallowing 

 those red Bullies (as I may call them), being 

 little better in taste. English ordering may 

 bring them to be an English Cherry, but yet 

 they are as wilde as Indians. The Plummes 

 of the Countrey be better for Plumbs than 

 the Cherries be for Cherries ; they be black and 

 yellow, about the bignesse of a Damson, of 

 a reasonable good taste. The white thorne 

 affords hawes as big as an English Cherrie, 

 which is esteemed above a Cherrie for his 

 goodness and pleasantnesse to the taste. 

 Vines afford great store of grapes, which are 

 very bigge both for' the grape and Cluster, 

 sweet and good; These be of two sorts, red 

 and white, there is likewise a smaller kinde of 

 grape which groweth in the Islands, which is 

 sooner ripe and more delectable ; so that there 

 is no knowne reason why as good wine may 

 not be made in these parts as in Burdenaux, 

 in France, being under the same degree." 



John Smith wrote concerning some of the 

 fruit which he found in the new land : 



"Plumbs there be of three sorts. The red 

 and white are like our hedge plumbs ; but the 

 other which they call Putchamius, grow as 



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