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Excerpt from The Peach: Its Culture, Uses, and History
The tenderness of the tree forbids the supposition that the Romans attempted its culture in Britain, nor is there any record justifying us to suppose that it was grown here before the reign of Henry the 8th (1509 That monarch sent his gardener, who was a French priest, named Woolf, to travel on the continent, especially to gain improvement in the art of horticulture. He returned with the apricot and other fruits to the king's garden at Nonsuch, near Croydon, (gough's Topography i. And among those may have been the peach; and thus much is certain, that Tusser, a contemporary, * mentions of fruits in our English gardens, three kinds of peach the white, the red, and the yellow-?eshed. It was not ripened well, however, probably, for Heresbach, a contemporary of Tusser, says, its hardier relative.
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