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The Orchard. 
The Spicing is a well rafted fruitc. 
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ttmedecapundt j>i!l fairc and good apples brought from France. 
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The Quecne apple is of two forts, both of them great faire red apples,and well rel- 
lilhed j but thegreater is the beft. > r cr- 
1 he Baftard Qrif eneapple is like the other for forme and colour.but not fo good in 
tafte : fome call this the bardfield Queening. 
The Boughton or greening is a very good and well tafted apple. 
The Leatherette apple is a good winter apple, ofno great bigneffe, but of averv 
good and marpetafte. 1 
The Pot apple is a phine Country apple. 
The Cowfnout is no very good fruit. 
The Gildiling apple is a yellow one, not much accounted. 
anJgre« atS ^ appk tooke the name of the hkeneffe,and is a reafonablc good apple 
The Stoken apple is a reafonable good apple. 
The Geneting apple is a very pleafant and good apple. 
The Worcefter apple is a very good apple, as biggeas a Pomewater. 
Vonime Ccuadis is a French apple, and of a good rellifh. 
The French Goodwin is a very good apple. 
The old wife isa very good, and well rellifhed apple. 
The towne Crab is an hard apple, not fo good to be eaten rawe as roafted but ex-’ 
ccllent to m'ake Cider. . 3 
The Virgilling apple is a reafonable good apple. 
The Crowes egge is no good rellifhed fruit, but nourfed vp in fome places of the 
common people. ‘ 
The Sugar apple is fo called of the fweetneffe. 
Sops in wine is fo named both of the pleafantnefTcof the fruit, and beautie of the 
apple. > 
The womans bread apple is a great apple. 
fheblacke apple or pippin is a very good eatingapple,and very likeaPearemaine ’ 
both for forme and bigneffe, but of a blacke footy colour. 
Tweenty forts of Sweetings and none good. 
The Peareappleisafmall fruit, but well rellifhed being ripe, andisforfhapevery 
like vnto a fmall fhort Pcare,and greene. 1 
The Paradife apple is a faire goodly yellow apple, but light and fpongy,and of a bit* 
tenth fweet tafte, not to be commended. 
T he apple without bloflome, fo called becaufe although it haue a fraall fhew of a 
bloffome,yet they are but fmall threds rather than leaues, neuer (hewing to bee likea 
flower, and therefore termed without bloffome : the apple is neyther good eating nor 
baking fruit. ° 
Wildings andCrabs are without number or vfe in our Orchard,being to be had out 
of the woods, fields and hedges rather then any where elfe. 
The Vfe of Apples. 
The beft forts of Apples feme at the laftcourfe forthctable, in mod 
menshoufesof account, where, if there grow any rare or excellent fruit ic 
is then fet forth to be feene and tafted. 
Diuers other forts ferue to bake, eitherfor the Mafters Table, or the 
meynes fuftenance,either in pyes or pans, or elfe ftc wed in difhes withRofc- 
water and Sugar, and Cinamon or Ginger caft vpon. 
Some kinds are fitted to roaft in the winter time, to warme a cup of wine, 
ale or bcere ; or to be eaten alone, for the nature of fome fruirxs neuer fo 
good, or worth the eating, as when they are roafted. 
Some 
