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and other related phenomena are to be found in the Philo- 
fophical Tranfa6tions, 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 Malfachufetts, 
was author of feveral papers in the Philofophical Tranf- 
a6tions; 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 1646-48, 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. 189) 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. Di£t. 4, p. 258, 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.) 
