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EARLY TUDOR GARDENS.
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abrode in the fieldes amonge other bushes.” This passage is
curious, as the subject has frequently been discussed, whether
the gooseberry is an indigenous plant in this country. Tusser
tells us that they are to be planted in September:—■
“The Barbery, Respis, and Gooseberry too
Looke now to be planted as other things doo.
The Goosebery, Respis, and Roses, al three
With strawberies vnder them trimly agree.”
APRICOT TREES ON OLD GARDEN WALL, LITTLECOTE.
The greatest addition to the number of cultivated fruits was
the apricot, which was certainly introduced before the middle
of the sixteenth century, probably by Henry the Eighth’s
gardener, Wolf, about 1524. Turner mentions it in both his
works under Mains Armeniaca, and gives Abrecok, or Abricok,
as the English name, though he maintains that “an hasty
peche is a better and a fitter name for it. But so that the
tre be well knowen, I pase not gretely what name it is knowen
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97
abrode in the fieldes amonge other bushes.” This passage is
curious, as the subject has frequently been discussed, whether
the gooseberry is an indigenous plant in this country. Tusser
tells us that they are to be planted in September:—■
“The Barbery, Respis, and Gooseberry too
Looke now to be planted as other things doo.
The Goosebery, Respis, and Roses, al three
With strawberies vnder them trimly agree.”
APRICOT TREES ON OLD GARDEN WALL, LITTLECOTE.
The greatest addition to the number of cultivated fruits was
the apricot, which was certainly introduced before the middle
of the sixteenth century, probably by Henry the Eighth’s
gardener, Wolf, about 1524. Turner mentions it in both his
works under Mains Armeniaca, and gives Abrecok, or Abricok,
as the English name, though he maintains that “an hasty
peche is a better and a fitter name for it. But so that the
tre be well knowen, I pase not gretely what name it is knowen
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