34.
Reading edition
Of trees or fruites to be set or remooued.
Apple trées of all sorts.
Apricocks.[E146]
Barberies.
Boollesse,[E147] black & white.
Cheries,[E148] red and black.
Chestnuts.[E149]
Cornet plums.[E150]
Filbeards,[E152] red and white.
Goose beries.[E153]
Grapes,[E154] white and red
Gréene or grasse plums.[E155]
Hurtillberies.[E156]
Medlars[E157] or marles.
Mulberie.[E158]
Peaches,[E159] white and red.
Peares of all sorts.
Quince[E161] trées.
Respis.[E162]
Reisons.[E163]
Small nuts.
Strawberies, red and white.
Seruice trées.[E164]
Walnuts.[E165]
Wardens,[E166] white and red.
Wheat plums.
[28] Now set ye may the box and bay, Haithorne and prim, for clothes trim.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · "Apricot;" in Shakspere, and in other writers of that century, apricock; in older writers abricot and abrecocke; from L. præcoqua or præcociNote 2 · "Boollesse." In the Grete Herball bolays, in Prompt. Parv. bolas. Prunus communis, Huds.; var. insititia, L. In Bacon's Essays xlvi. the namNote 3 · "Cheries." Austen, in his Treatise on Fruit Trees, Oxford, 1657, p. 56, enumerates the following kinds of cherries: "The Flanders Cherry, moNote 4 · "Chestnuts." Often spelt, but improperly, chesnut, as though the cheese-like nut. From the O. Fr. Chastaigne, and the Ital. Castagna, we leaNote 5 · "Cornet plums" = cornel plums; called also cornel cherry. O. Fr. cornille, now cornouille, L. Lat. cornolium, from Lat. cornus = a cornel chNote 6 · Damisens. 1577.Note 7 · "The Damasco-plum is a good fruit and the trees beare well."—Austen's Treatise on Fruit Trees, 1657.Note 8 · Andrew Boorde, in his Introduction of Knowledge, ed. Furnivall, p. 283, says: "Fylberdes be better than hasell nuttes; yf they be newe, and Note 9 · "Goose beries." Dr. R. A. Prior says: "From the Flemish kroes or kruys berie, Swed. krusbär, a word that bears the two meanings of 'cross-' Note 10 · "Some Authors affirme that there have been Vine-yards in England in former times, though they be all destroyed long since. Divers places retNote 11 · "There are very many kinds of Plums, many more than of Cherries. I esteeme the Mustle Plum one of the best, being a faire large black plum, Note 12 · "Hurtillberies (= Whortleberries) called 'Hurts' for shortness at Godalming. I suspect this may be connected with Hurtmoor, the name of a daNote 13 · "Medlars, called in Normandy and Anjou meslier, from Lat. mespilus, but as the verb mesler became in English meddle, so this fruit also, altNote 14 · "The Iuyce of Mulberries is knowne by experience to be a good remedy for a sore mouth, or throat, such as are perfectly ripe relax the bellyNote 15 · "Peach, in old works spelt Peske, Peesk, Peshe, and Peche, O. Fr. pesche, L. Persica, formerly called malum persicum = Persian apple, from wNote 16 · sic also in 1577.Note 17 · Evidently a misprint for Peare-plums, which is the reading of all the later editions. Austen, in his Treatise on Fruit Trees, recommends thaNote 18 · The word "Quince" preserves only a single letter of its original form. A passage in the Romaunt of the Rose shows an early form of the word,Note 19 · "Respis." In Turner's Herbal called Raspis or Raspices, the latter of which is apparently a double plural. Probably from resp, a word that iNote 20 · "Reisons," most probably currants. "Raysouns of Coraunte."—Pegge's Forme of Cury, ed. 1780, p. 16. Turner (Names of Herbes) says the currantNote 21 · "Seruice trees." Dr. R. A. Prior, in his Popular Names of British Plants, 1870, p. 209, says: "Service-, or, as in Ph. Holland's Pliny more Note 22 · "Wallnuts are usually eaten after meales to close up the stomach, and help digestion. And according to Avicen (Can. lib. 2, cap. 501), recenNote 23 · "Warden appulles rosted, stued, or baken, be nutrytyue, and doth comfort the stomache, specyally yf they be eaten with comfettes."—Andrew Bo