128 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND 
on a bough, or a basket with a sive bottom ... an hooke to 
pull boughes to you.” For storing, apples and pears should be 
laid “ in a drie loft ... in a heape ten or fourteen days, that 
they may sweate ” ; they must then be wiped and dried “ with 
a clean and softe cloth,” and afterwards laid between layers 
of straw. Sir Hugh Platt gives a recipe for “ apples kept with¬ 
out wrinkles.” “ Gather not your Pippins till the full moon, 
after Michaelmas ; so may you keepe them a whole yeare with¬ 
out shrinking ; and so of grapes and all other fruits.” 
“ Our orchards,” writes Holinshed, “ were never furnished 
with such good fruit, nor with such varietie as at the present.” 
The varieties of almost every kind of fruit had been increased 
by cultivation. The number of apples was “ infinite,” and as 
Gerard and Parkinson found it quite impossible to give the 
names of all the kinds grown in their time, it would be useless 
to attempt such a catalogue now. Gerard gives woodcuts 
of the “ Pomewater tree.” “ The Baker’s ditch apple tree,” 
“ the King of Apples,” “ The Quining, or Queene of Apples,” 
and “ the Sommer ” and “ Winter Pearmain.” Parkinson 
says of the Queen Apple, two sorts, both “ great, fair, red, and 
well relished,” and Ben Jonson thus refers to the same apple : 
“Only your nose inclines 
That side that’s next the sun to the queene apple.” 
“ The golding pippin,” Parkinson writes, “ is the greatest and 
best of all sorts of pippins.” He gives also the Summer, 
French, Russet, spotted and yellow pippins, and adds, “ I know 
no sort of pippins but are excellent, good, well-relished fruits.” 
He is not so lavish in his praise of some of the other sorts of 
apples, as “ The Paradise Apple,” “ not to be commended,” 
or “ Twenty sorts of sweetings and none good.” He names 
several from France, and brackets together “ Pome de Ram- 
bur es, de Capandas and de Calual, as all fair and good apples 
brought from France.” The following are a few names from 
among those which he calls “ very good,” or fair,” “ great,” 
“ goodly,” and “ very well rellished.” “ Pearmain, Russeting, 
Broading, Flower of Kent, Davie Gentle, Costards Harvey, 
Deusan or Apple-John, Kentish Codlin, and Worcester apple.” 
Which were the best known and most popular varieties 
