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A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
by.” The reason he gives for his name, is that the fruit ripens
so much earlier than the peach. The word apricot implies
the same idea, being derived from the Latin prcecoqua, or
proecocca. He says, in 1548, “ We have very fewe of these trees
as yet,” and in 1551, tf I have sene many trees of thys kynde
in Almany, and som in England.” In the beautiful old garden
at Littlecote, in Berkshire, there are two apricot trees which
still bear fruit, supposed to have been planted when the tree
was first introduced into this country.
Tusser, 1573, gives a list of fruits to be set or removed
in January, and it includes Apricots, or Apricocks, as he calls
them.
The following is his list:—
1. Apple trees of all sorts.
2. Apricocks.
3. Barberies.
4. Boollesse, black and white.
5. Cheries, red and black.
6. Chestnuts.
7. Cornet plums.*
8. Damsens, white and black.
9. Filbeards, red and white.
10. Goose beries.
11. Grapes, white and red.
12. Greene or grasse plums.
13. Hurtillberies.f
14. Medlars or marles.
15. Mulberie.
16. Peaches, white and red.
17. Peares of all sorts.
18. Perare plums,J black and
yellow.
19. Quince trees.
20. Respis.
21. Reisons.
22. Small nuts.
23. Strawberies, red and white.
24. Seruice trees.
25. Walnuts.
26. Wardens, white and red.
27. Wheat plums.
28. Now set ye may
the box and bay,
Haithorne and prim,
for clothes trim.
We cannot prove that red currants had a place in gardens
before this time, as they are never mentioned as such; even
Gerard, in 1597, does not give them under that name, but
describes them as a very small kind of gooseberry without
* = cornel plum = cornel cherries.
4- = whortleberries.
J =pear-plum.
A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND.
by.” The reason he gives for his name, is that the fruit ripens
so much earlier than the peach. The word apricot implies
the same idea, being derived from the Latin prcecoqua, or
proecocca. He says, in 1548, “ We have very fewe of these trees
as yet,” and in 1551, tf I have sene many trees of thys kynde
in Almany, and som in England.” In the beautiful old garden
at Littlecote, in Berkshire, there are two apricot trees which
still bear fruit, supposed to have been planted when the tree
was first introduced into this country.
Tusser, 1573, gives a list of fruits to be set or removed
in January, and it includes Apricots, or Apricocks, as he calls
them.
The following is his list:—
1. Apple trees of all sorts.
2. Apricocks.
3. Barberies.
4. Boollesse, black and white.
5. Cheries, red and black.
6. Chestnuts.
7. Cornet plums.*
8. Damsens, white and black.
9. Filbeards, red and white.
10. Goose beries.
11. Grapes, white and red.
12. Greene or grasse plums.
13. Hurtillberies.f
14. Medlars or marles.
15. Mulberie.
16. Peaches, white and red.
17. Peares of all sorts.
18. Perare plums,J black and
yellow.
19. Quince trees.
20. Respis.
21. Reisons.
22. Small nuts.
23. Strawberies, red and white.
24. Seruice trees.
25. Walnuts.
26. Wardens, white and red.
27. Wheat plums.
28. Now set ye may
the box and bay,
Haithorne and prim,
for clothes trim.
We cannot prove that red currants had a place in gardens
before this time, as they are never mentioned as such; even
Gerard, in 1597, does not give them under that name, but
describes them as a very small kind of gooseberry without
* = cornel plum = cornel cherries.
4- = whortleberries.
J =pear-plum.