Paradisi in sole paradisus terrestris, or, A garden of all sorts of pleasant flowers which our English ayre will permitt to be noursed vp / a kitchen garden of all manner of herbes, rootes & fruites for meate or sauce vsed with vs, and, an orchard of all sorte of fruitbearing trees and shrubbes fit for our land, together with the right orderinge, planting & preseruing of them and their vses & vertues

by John Parkinson

The old wife is a very good, and well rellished apple.

The towne Crab is an hard apple, not so good to be eaten rawe as roasted, but excellent to make Cider.

The Virgilling apple is a reasonable good apple.

The Crowes egge is no good rellished fruit, but noursed vp in some places of the common people.

The Sugar apple is so called of the sweetnesse.

Sops in wine is so named both of the pleasantnesse of the fruit, and beautie of the apple.

The womans breast apple is a great apple.

The blacke apple or pippin is a very good eating apple, and very like a Pearemaine, both for forme and bignesse, but of a blacke sooty colour.

Tweenty sorts of Sweetings and none good.

The Peare apple is a small fruit, but well rellished being ripe, and is for shape very like vnto a small short Peare, and greene.