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" 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 gentleman 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 gar- 

 den 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 cultivated out of Sussex, al- 

 though I find Gerard must have seen the 

 fruit of the Pippin kind, for in his account 

 of the Pomum Amoris, or Love Apple, he 

 says it is the bigness of a goose egg or a 

 large Pippin. The Pippin appears' to have 



