ground is worn out they never manure k to bring it in heart,butlet 
it lie iFor paKairc for all Mens Catcel to grafe upon, and clear more 
ground out of the Woods to plant in. 
As to the timber of this Countrey, there are divers kinds ; four 
feveral forts of O^^jvery tall and fmooth. There is alfo another fort 
of Timber called£fi^^^r/,that is harder than any Oak.There are alfo 
very large and tall Foplars] and in fome parts of the Gountrey great 
ftoreof jPiW/, fit for Marts of Ships: There is likewife black ffW- 
mt, Cipref, Cedar, Dogmcd,Jjb,Elm, Gum tree.LocuJlfihefmt^ Ha- 
fel, Sajfafras, Holly y hlder^ With feveral others. ' 
As to the Fruit-trees of the Countrey , it affords great plenty: 
For there arc few Planters but that have fair and largeOrcbards fome 
whereofhave twelve hundred Trees and upward, bearing all' forts 
©f Englijh Apples, as Fear-mahs,Pippi»s,RupUpjs,Gftards,Mar^ 
• golds, Ki^gs-af pies, Magitem, EaPchehurs^^nd many others, of which 
they make great ftore of Cider. ^ 
Here are likewife great Peach-Orchards, which bear fiich an in- 
finite quantity of Peaches, that at fome Plantations they beat down 
to the Hoggs fourty bu(hels in a year. 
Here arc alfo great ftore of ^uip^cesywhich are larger and fairer 
than thofeof jB»^/W,and not fo harfli in tafte; of thejuice of thefe 
they alfo make Quince-drfnk. 
Here are li kewife jipricocks, and fome forts of Englijh Elms but 
thefe do not ripen fo kindly as they do in England. ' 
There are fome forts of Pears , but at very few Plantations • I 
Aave feen the Bergamy,Warden, and two or three other forts, and 
thefe are as fair,large and pleafant as they arc in England, 
Here grow as good Figgs, as there do in Spain, but thereare few 
planted as yet. 
Thofe that take the pains to plant Gcofe krries, h2ive them- but 
I never faw any of our Englijh Currants, (Riberries) there and it is 
obferv'd, that Oranges and Limms will not grow there/ though 
they do in more Northern Countries. ^ 
I had almoft forgot to mention theirikf^/^^fn^.Trw, whereof thev 
have good ftorc about their Houfes ; thefe were planted at firft to 
feed Si!k- worms, but that defign failing, they erenow of little ufe 
amoDgfl them. ^ 
The meaneft Planter hath fiort of Cherries, and they are all over 
Virgima -^s plentiful as they are in Kent. The Cherry-Trees grow 
more large generally than they do in and bear more plen- 
^^'^^^^^^^ diggingabout them, orprun- 
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