
          228

and ever had, greater variety and finer sorts of them than
the English.  The best sort of these cling to the stone, and
will not come off clear, which they call plum nectarines and
plum peaches, or clingstones.  Some of these are twelve or
thirteen inches in girth. These sorts of fruits are
raised so easily there, that some good husbands plant great
orchards of them, purposely for their hogs; and others make
a drink of them, which they call mobby [mauby?], and either drink it as
cider, or distill it off for brandy.  This makes the best 
spirit next to grapes." pp. 259-266.

"Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts
Bay in New England."  Edited by N. B. Shurtleff, M.D., Vol.
I. 1628-41. Boston, 1853.

On p. 24 is an undated memorandum of things "To provide
to send for Newe England" among which are included--"Stones
of all sorts of fruits, as peaches, plumbs, filberts, cherries."
This was about 1628.

In a letter of April 17, 1629, from Gravesend, Eng., by
the Governor and Deputy of the New England Company to Capt.
John Endecott, then "Governor and Council for London's Plantation
        