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one.” Later on “ And. Hill ” is quoted again, and his advice 
is to plant the trees against an east wall, and to protect them 
with a “ course cloth .... in the night or in cold weather.” 
Platt also mentions, as rather an unusual practice, that “ Sir 
Francis Walsingham caused divers Apricock trees to be planted 
against a south Wall, and their Branches to be borne up also 
against the wall, according to the manner of vines, whereby his 
plumbs did ripen three or four weeks before any other.” In 
1611, “ £100 was paid to William Hogan, keeper of His 
Magesties still-house and garden at Hampton Court, for plant¬ 
ing the walls of the said garden with apricot trees, peach trees, 
plum trees, and vines of choice fruits.” 1 
Gerard figures four varieties of peach. “ The white peach 
with meate about the stone of a white colour ; the red peach 
with meate of a gallant red colour, like wine in taste and 
therefore marvellous pleasant; the D’auant peach with meate 
of a golden colour ; and the yellow peach, of a yellow colour on 
the outside, and likewise on the inside ... of the greatest 
pleasure and best taste of all the other of his kinds.” He 
makes no mention of the nectarine, which, however, by Par¬ 
kinson’s time had become well known. Six varieties are de¬ 
scribed in a chapter to themselves, although he says “ they 
have been with us not many years.” He gives twenty varieties 
of peach, and a woodcut illustrates six of these ; two of them 
are considerably smaller than the apricot on the same plate. 
Although Platt has faith that a peach grafted on a nut will 
have no kernel, he cannot quite believe—although he gives the 
recipe—that a peach-tree watered three days running with 
goat’s milk, when beginning to flower, will produce pome¬ 
granates. Most of his other observations on their culture are 
practical and correct. They like, he says, a clay soil, and to 
be waterlogged at the roots destroys them. They will grow 
from stones, and bring forth a " kindly peach,” but they thrive 
best when grafted on a plum-stock. Bacon mentions nec¬ 
tarines as coming in September, along with “ peaches and 
melocotones.” Of the latter, Parkinson writes it “ is a yellow 
fair peach . . . and is better relished than any of them.” 
The only “ curran,” so called by Gerard, is the small grape or 
1 Issue Rolls of the Exchequer, James I., by F. Devon, 1836, 
