HISTORY OP THE APPLE. 33 



At a later period, 1597, John Gerard issued in an ex- 

 n,..oive folio his History of Plants, in which he mentions 

 seven kinds of Pippins. The following is given as a sam- 

 ple of the pomology of that day : — 



"The fruit of apples do differ in greatnesse, forme, 

 colour, and taste, some covered with red skin, others yel- 

 low or grcene, varying infinitely according to soil and 

 climate ; some very greate, some very little, and many of 

 middle sort ; some are sweet of taste, or something soure, 

 most be of middle taste between sweet and soure ; the 

 ■which to distinguish, I think it impossible, notwithstand- 

 ing I heare of one who intendeth to write a peculiar vol- 

 ume of apples and the nse of them." He further says : 

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

 gardens and orchards made for that purpose ; they delight 

 to growe in good fertile grounds. Kent doth abounde 

 with apples of most sortes ; but I have seen pastures and 

 hedge-rows about the grounds of a worshipful gentleman 

 dwelling two miles from Hereford, so many trees of all 

 sortes, that the seruantes drinke for the.moste parte' no 

 other drinke but that which is made of apples. * * * 

 Like as there be divers m.inured apples, so is there sundry 

 wilde apples or crabs, not husbanded, that is, not graft- 

 ed." He also speaks of the Paradise, which is probably 

 the same we now use as a dwarfing stock. 



Dr. Gerard fully appreciated the value of fruits, and 

 tlius voliernently urges his countrymen to plant orchards: 

 " Gentlemen, th;it have land and living, put forward, * * 

 * * * gr:ift, set, plant, and nourish up trees in every cor- 

 ner of your grounds ; the labor is small, the cost is noth- 

 ing, the commoditie is great, yourselves shall have plentie, 

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