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and other related phenomena are to be found in the Philo- 

 fophical Tranfadlions, was of another line of the fame 

 family. 



Paul Dudley, Efq., F.R.S. (born 1675), fon of Gov. 

 Jofeph Dudley, and himfelf Chief Juftice of Maffachufetts, 

 was author of feveral papers in the Philofophical Tranf- 

 aftions; one of which is an" "Account of the Poifon-wood 

 Tree in New-England" (vol. xxxi. p. 135); and another, 

 " Obfervations on fome Plants in New-England, with 

 Remarkable Inftances of the Nature and Power of Vege- 

 tation " (vol. xxxiii. p. 129). This laft is of only feven 

 pages, and of little fcientific account: though we learn 

 from it, that, in 1726, when Mr. Dudley wrote, the Pear- 

 main, Kentifh Pippin, and Golden Ruffetin, were efteemed 

 apples here, and the Orange and Bergamot cultivated 

 pears; 1 that, in one town in 1721, they made three thou- 

 fand, and in another near ten thoufand barrels of cider; 

 and that, to fpeak of " trees of the wood," he knew of a 



1 Interleaved Almanacs of 1646-4S, cited by Savage (Winthrop, N. E., vol. ii. 

 p. 332), mention " Tankard " and " Kreton " (perhaps Kirton) apples, as well as 

 Russetins, Pearmains, and Long-Red apples; beside "the great pears," and ap- 

 ricots, as grown here. In the Records of the Governor and Company of the 

 Massachusetts Bay (Records of Mass., vol. i. p. 24), there is an undated memo- 

 randum, " To provide to send for Newe England . . . stones of all sorts of 

 fruites; as peaches, plums, filberts, cherries, pear, aple, quince kernells," &c, 

 which the " First General Letter of the Governor," &c, of the 17th April, 1629, 

 again makes mention of {ibid., p. 392) ; and Josselyn (Voyages, p. 1S9) remarks 

 on the "good fruit" reared from such kernels. But, if this were, the only source 

 of our ancestors' English fruit, the names which they gave to the seedlings must 

 have been vague. — For other early notices of cultivated fruit-trees, see Savage 

 Gen. Diet. 4, p. 25S, and the same, 4, p. 621. Saml. Sewall, jun. Esq., of Brook- 

 line, had trees grafted with ' Drew's Russet,' and ' Golden Russet ' apples, in 

 1724. (Gen. Reg. 16, p. 65.) 



