[E155] "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, and of an excellent rellish, and the _trees beare abundantly_. The Damazeene also is an excellent fruit. The _Violet_ and _Premorden_ Plum-trees are very _great bearing trees_, and the fruits pleasant and good. The _White Peare-plum-stocks_ are accounted the best, and the _Damson-stocks_ the worst for grafting upon."--_Ibid._ p. 57.
[E156] "Hurtillberies (= Whortleberries) called 'Hurts' for shortness at Godalming. I suspect this may be connected with Hurtmoor, the name of a dale near Godalming."--Note by Rev. W. W. Skeat. "'Hurtilberries' for 'whortleberries,' itself a corruption for 'myrtleberries.'"--Dr. Prior, Popular Names of British Plants, 1870.
[E157] "Medlars, called in Normandy and Anjou _meslier_, from Lat. _mespilus_, but as the verb _mesler_ became in English _meddle_, so this fruit also, although a word of different origin, took a _d_ for an _s_ and became _medlar_."--_Ibid._
"The Kernells [of medlers] bruised to dust, and drunk in liquor (especially where Parsly roots have been steeped), doe mightily drive out stones and gravell from the kidneyes."--Austen, Treatise on Fruit Trees, 1657, p. 84.
[E158] "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 belly, but the unripe (especially dry'd) are said to bind exceedingly, and therefore are given to such as have _Lasks and Fluxes_."--_Ibid._ p. 84.
[E159] "Peach, in old works spelt Peske, Peesk, Peshe, and Peche, O. Fr. _pesche_, L. _Persica_, formerly called _malum persicum_ = Persian apple, from which the Arabs formed their name for it with the prefix _el_ or _al_, and thence the Spanish _alberchigo_."--Dr. R. A. Prior.
Austen, in his work already quoted, says (p. 58): "Of _Peaches_ there are divers kinds. I know by experience the _Nutmeg and Newington_ Peaches to be excellent fruits, especially the _Nutmeg_ Peach."
[E160] Evidently a misprint for Peare-plums, which is the reading of all the later editions. Austen, in his Treatise on Fruit Trees, recommends that Peaches be grafted on plum stocks, such as the _White Peare-plum-stock_.