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or grass plums ; hurtil berries ; rnedlers, or 

 ineles ; mulberries ; peaches, white and red ; 

 peeres of all sorts ; peer plums, black and 

 yellow; quince-trees; raspis; reisons; small 

 nuts ; strawberries, red and white ; service 

 trees ; wardens, white and red ; walnuts ; 

 wheat plums. 



Currants were not distinguished from 

 gooseberries by any particular name at that 

 period ; and even in Gerard's time, they were 

 considered as a species of the gooseberry. He 

 says, in his account of the latter fruit, " We 

 have also in our London gardens another 

 sort altogether without prickes, whose fruit 

 is verie small, lesser by much than the com- 

 mon kinde, but of a perfect red colour, where- 

 in it differeth from the rest of his kinde/' 



Lord Bacon, who wrote about fifty years 

 after Tusser, has noticed them : he says, 

 " The earliest fruits are strawberries, cherries, 

 gooseberries, corrans, and after them early 

 apples, early pears, apricots, rasps, and after 

 them damisons, and most kinds of plums, 

 peaches, &c. ; and the latest are apples, war- 

 dens, grapes, nuts, quinces, almonds, sloes, 

 brierberries, hops, medlers, services, corne- 

 lians, &c/' 



Currants are a fruit of great importance 

 in this country : they are so easily propa- 



