84 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
indigenous plant in this country. Tusser remarks that they 
are to be planted in September : 
“ The Barbery, Respis, and Gooseberry too 
Looke now to be planted as other things doo. 
The Goosebery, Respis, and Roses, al three 
With strawberies vnder them trimly agree.” 
The greatest addition to the number of cultivated fruits was 
the apricot, which was certainly introduced before the middle 
of the sixteenth century, probably by Henry VIII/s gardener, 
Wolf, about 1524. Turner mentions it in both his works under 
Malus Armeniaca, and gives Abrecok, or Abricok, as the 
English name, though he maintains that “ an hasty peche is a 
better and a fitter name for it. But so that the tre be well 
knowen, I pase not gretely what name it is knowen by.” The 
reason he gives for his name is that the fruit ripens so much 
earlier than the peach. The word “ apricot ” implies the same 
idea, being derived from the Latin prcecoqua, or prcecocca. He 
says, in 1548, “ We have very fewe of these trees as yet,” and 
in 1551, “ I have sene many trees of thys k}/nde in Almany, 
and som in England.” In the beautiful old garden at Little- 
cote, in Berkshire, there are two apricot-trees which still bear 
fruit, supposed to have been planted when the tree was first 
introduced into this country. 
Tusser, 1573, gives a list of fruits to be set or removed in 
January, and it includes Apricots, or Apricocks, as he calls them. 
The following is his list: 
1. Apple-trees of all sorts. 
2. Apricocks. 
3. Barberies. 
4. Boollesse, black and white. 
5. Cheries, red and black. 
6. Chestnuts. 
7. Cornet plums. 1 
8. Damsens, white and black. 
9. Filbeards, red and white. 
10. Goose beries. 
11. Grapes, white and red. 
12. Greene or grasse plums. 
13. Hurtillberies. 2 
14. Medlars or marles. 
15. Mulberie. 
16. Peaches, white and red. 
17. Peares of all sorts. 
18. Per are plums, 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 black and 
yellow. 
19. Quince-trees. 
—cornel p um — cornel cherries . 
= pear-plum. 
= whortleberries. 
