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to this fruit. Bulleyn, in his work on Health, 1 mentions a 
“ kind of peares growing in the City of Norwich, called black 
friers’ peare—very delicious and pleasant, and no lesse profit¬ 
able.” “ A phisition of the same citye called doctoure Mars- 
seilde, said he thought those peares without all comparison 
were the best that grow in any place of England.” 
Bulleyn also remarks on the cherries growing in Norfolk. 
" In the county of Kent be growing great plentye of the fruite. 
So are there in a towne near unto Norwich, called Ketrein- 
ham.” 2 It is probably to the influence of the Huguenots in 
these two counties that the improvement in fruit culture— 
especially of the cherry—is owing. To these foreigners may 
also be ascribed the advance in favour of hop-growing which 
was manifested about this time. Several varieties of cherry 
were grown ; the best known were the Flanders, or Kentish, the 
Spanish, “ Gascoigne,” and Morello, also a variety called 
“ Luke Warde’s cherry, because he was the first that brought 
the same out of Italy.” 3 Parkinson describes thirty-five named 
varieties. Sir Hugh Platt gives an account of what he calls “ a 
conceit of that delicate knight,” Sir Francis Carew, at Bedding- 
ton, when Queen Elizabeth visited him there. He covered a 
cherry-tree with canvas kept damp, to retard the fruit, only 
removing “ the tent when assured of her Majesties coming, so 
that she had cherries at least one moneth after all cherries had 
taken their farewell of England.” 
The garden or “ tame ” sort “ of Plummes are of diuers kindes, 
some white, some yellow, some blacke, some of the colour of a 
chesnet, and some of a lyght or clear redde ; and some great, 
and some small; some sweet and dry, some fresh and sharpe, 
whereof eche kinde hath a particular name. The wilde Plummes 
are least of al, and are called slose, bullies, and snagges.” 4 It 
is evident from this description that the number of plums had 
greatly increased. John Tradescant was a great grower of 
plums, as of all fruit. He 5 " hath wonderfully laboured to 
obtain all the rarest fruits he can hear of ”; and also " Master 
John Millen, dwelling in Old Street, who from John Tradescant 
1 A newe Book entituled the Gouernement of Healthe, William Bulleyn, 
1558. 
2 Ketteringham. 3 Gerard. 4 Lyte’s Herbal. 5 Parkinson. 
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