The compleat planter & cyderist. Together with the art of pruning fruit-trees: In two books. I. Containing plain directions for the propagating all manner of fruit-trees, and the most approved ways and methods yet known, for the making and ordering of cyder, and other English wines. II. The art of pruning, or lopping fruit-trees. With an explanation of some words which gardeners make use of, in speaking of trees. With the use of the fruits of trees for preserving us in health, or for curing us when we are sick. By a lover of planting.
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The compleat planter & cyderist. Together with the art of pruning fruit-trees: In two books. I. Containing plain directions for the propagating all manner of fruit-trees, and the most approved ways and methods yet known, for the making and ordering of cyder, and other English wines. II. The art of pruning, or lopping fruit-trees. With an explanation of some words which gardeners make use of, in speaking of trees. With the use of the fruits of trees for preserving us in health, or for curing us when we are sick. By a lover of planting.
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Lover of planting.
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London :: printed for Thomas Bassett at the George near St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street,
1690.
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Fruit trees -- England
Agriculture
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"The compleat planter & cyderist. Together with the art of pruning fruit-trees: In two books. I. Containing plain directions for the propagating all manner of fruit-trees, and the most approved ways and methods yet known, for the making and ordering of cyder, and other English wines. II. The art of pruning, or lopping fruit-trees. With an explanation of some words which gardeners make use of, in speaking of trees. With the use of the fruits of trees for preserving us in health, or for curing us when we are sick. By a lover of planting." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80294.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.
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descriptionPage 170
CHAP. XXIV. Of the kinds of Plums.
IN Berries the white is commonly more delicate and sweet in Tast than the co∣loured, as is seen in white Grapes, white Rasps, white Straw-berries, Currants, &c. but in Fruits the white is commonly the meanest, as in Plums the white Harvest Plum is a base Plum, the Musle, Damazeen, and other black Plums are of the best, &c.
There is great variety of Plums, and they appropriated to several uses, they conti∣nue longer on the Trees than Cherries, and are a more pleasing, but not a more whol∣some Fruit.
Plums to be preferred before others are as follow, The Red and Blew Primordian, as being first ripe, tho not so good Fruit as several of the following.
descriptionPage 171
The
...Morocco
...Myrobalan
...Violet
Apricock, a delicate Plum, and parts clean from the Stone.
...Barbary
...Black Damascene
...Green Damascene
...Prunella
Queen-Mother, one of the best Plums.
...Kings
...Matchless
...Black Pear Plum
...Pescod
...Catalonia
Bonum Magnumque, a fair yellowish green Plum.
...Black Date
...Cheston
...Marbled
Imperial, one of the largest of Plums.
...Nutmeg
...Turkey
Prince, last ripe.
Plum.
These Plums you may set to a Wall, tho most of them will bear well being Dwarfs, or Standards, if you have not wall enough.
descriptionPage 172
The white Pear Plum, Prune, Damsons, and Verdock, are good preserving Plums.
The
Muscle, one of the best Plums
...Wheat.
...Lammas
Plum.
And Bullice, and Damsons, and several course Plums are raised by Suckers, with∣out Grafting or Inoculating, and may be set in Orchards, Hedges, or any common places.
The driest Plums which part clean from the Stone and are of a black or inclinable to a Black or Red colour, are accounted best.
Plums are best propagated by Grafting.
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