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warm Climates, no more than in the Front ignac or 

 Muscat Grape. 



"My Orange-Trees are as large as any I saw when 

 I was young in France, except those of Fountainbleau, 

 or what I have seen since in the Low Countries .... 

 When I was at Coseivelt with that Bishop of Munster, 

 that made so much Noise in his time, I observed no 

 other Trees but Cherries in a great Garden he had 

 made. He told me the Reason was, because he found 

 no other Fruit would ripen well in that Climate, or 

 upon that Soil ; and therefore instead of being curious 

 in others, he had only been so in the Sorts of that, 

 whereof he had so many, as never to be without them 

 from May to the end of September" 



He goes on to discuss the size and shape 

 of gardens, the best descriptions of grapes, 

 plums, and other fruit, the careful appropria- 

 tion of walls, and the choice of soil. He 

 seems to have contributed personally to 

 extend the resources of English gardens and 

 greenhouses. He particularly informs us that 

 he imported from various parts of France 

 four new sorts of grape : the Arboyse, the 

 Burgundy, the Black Muscat, and the 

 Grizzelin Frontignac. Of the three kinds 

 of fig, he preferred the white, of which there 

 were two varieties. The Tawny, he tells 



