Bulleyn. 8 1 
lions, had confirmed his reprefentatlon. 
His travels, and the great attention he had 
paid to the native produilions of his own 
country, had given him a comprehenlive 
viev^ of the natural fertility of the foil, and 
climate of Engla?id which, from the te- 
nour of his writings, feems to have been, at 
that time, by fome people much depreci- 
ated. He oppofes this idea with patriotic 
zeal and concern, and alleges various ex- 
amples, to prove, that we had excellent 
apples, pears, plums, cherries, and hops, 
of our own growth, before the impor- 
tation of thefe articles into England by ths 
London and Kentijh gardeners, but that 
the culture of them had been greatly ne- 
glected. He endeavours to confirm the na- 
tural fertility of the land, from the memor- 
able inftance of the fea peafe^ on the beach, 
near Orford and Aldbo7^ough ; by an im- 
menfe crop of which the poor were pre- 
ferved in a time of dearth, in the year 1555. 
Of which fee further accounts in Jo.bnjbn'^ 
Gerard, p. 1250; Parkinson's 
*^ trCy' p. 1060 ; and Lobel's lUufira-^ 
tiones, p. 164, 
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