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THE HUSBANDMAN'S FRUITPULL ORCHARD (cont,) 
Brotherston, l*c«, rates this pamphlet highly, 
saying; "It gave in concise form, yet with com¬ 
mendable fullness, the methods that experience 
had proved best for gathering, packing, carrying, 
and storing the fruits commonly cultivated in 
England* When compared with the short notes on 
these subjects that appear in The New Orchard 
and in Markham's edition of The Countrie Parme, 
this little pamphlet must be regarded as being 
by far the best treatise on the subject that ap¬ 
peared for a long series of years". ^Brothers- / tt 
ton's article, signed only with the initial "B*"* 
was acknowledged by him in a letter to MPW* 
This tract was for the first time appended to 
Lawson's works, 2d ed*, I 623 , with Gervase Mark¬ 
ham's "Parwell to husbandry", 1625, and seems to 
have been Included in all subsequent reprints of 
Lawson's works with those of Markham, Altho the 
"New orchard" of 1653 has been offered for sale 
with the note that it lacked Harward's treatise 
on the propagation of plants, implying that "The 
Husbandman's fruitfull orchard" was also missing; 
this was probably an imperfect copy, (li<FW) 
