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XII. ObferVations on fome of the Plants in New-Eng- 
land, with remarkable Inflames of theTSLature and 
Power of Vegetation . In a Letter to the Pub - 
lifh er from the Honourable Paul Dudley, Effc 
F. Ik. S. ■ t , r | ; 
H E Society, without Doubt, have long fince been 
_ acquainted, that the Plants of England, as well 
thofe of the Fields and Orchards, as of the Garden* 
that have been brought over hither, {uit mighty well 
with our Soil, and grow here to great Perfection- how- 
ever, that the curious may better make a Comparifon, 
I (hall fingle out fome Particulars, of my own Obfer- 
vation. 
To begin with the Fruit Trees* 
Our Apples are, without Doubt, as good' as thofe of 
England , and much fairer to look to, and fo are the 
Pears *, but we have not got of all the Sorts. 
Our Peaches do rather excel thofe of England, and 
then we have not the Trouble or Expence of Walls for 
them *, for our Peach Trees are all Standards, and I 
have had, in my own Garden, feven or eight Hundred 
fine Peaches of the Rare-ripes,. growing at a Time on 
one Tree. 
Our People, of late Years, have run fo much uporr 
Orchards, that in a Village near B oft on, conlifting of 
about forty Families, they made near three Thouland 
Barrels of Cyder. This was in the Year 1721. And, 
in another Town of two Hundred Families, in the fame 
Year, I am credibly inform’d, they made near ten 
Thoufand Barrels. Some of our Apple Trees, will 
make fix, fome have made feven Barrels of Cyder, but 
this is not common j and the Apples will yield from 
feven, 
