36 HISTORY OF FRUITS. 



Gerard, who wrote his History of Plants about seventy 

 years after the introduction of pippins, has given no 

 account of this variety of the apple. He describes but 

 seven kinds : the pome water, the baker-ditch apple, the 

 king of apples, the quining, or queen of apples, the 

 summer pearmain, the winter pearmain, and the Paradise 

 apple. In his description of apples, he says, "The fruit 

 of apples do differ in greatness, forme, colour and taste ; 

 some covered with a red skin, others yellow or greene, 

 varying infinitely according to the soyle and climate ; 

 some very great, some little, and many of a middle sort ; 

 some are sweet of taste, or something sour; most be of 

 a middle taste, betweene sweet and sour ; the which to 

 distinguish I think it impossible, notwithstanding I 

 heare of one that intendeth to write a peculiar volume of 

 apples, and the use of them." This author continues, 

 " The tame and grafted apple-trees are planted and set in 

 gardens and orchards made for that purpose : they delight 

 to grow in good and fertile grounds. Kent doth abound 

 with apples of most sorts; but I have seen in the pastures 

 and hedge-rows, about the grounds of a worshipful gen- 

 tleman dwelling two miles from Hereford, called M. 

 Roger Bodnome, so many trees of all sortes, that the 

 seruants drink for the most part no other drinke but that 

 which is made of apples. The quantitie is such, that by 

 the report of the gentleman himselfe, the parson hath for 

 tithe many hogsheads of cyder." " Like as there be 

 divers manured apples, so is there sundry wilde apples, 

 or crabs, not husbanded, that is, not grafted. We have 

 in our London gardens, (Gerard's garden was in Holborn) 

 a dwarfe kind of sweet apple called the Paradise apple, 

 which beareth apples very timely without grafting." 



From this account we may conclude, that the pippin 

 apples were still rare, or that they had not been cul- 

 tivated out of Sussex, although I find Gerard must have 



