As a matter of curiosity, it has been deemed expedient, to add a list of the fruits cultivated in our English Gardens in the year 1573. This list is taken from Tusser’s _Five hundred points of good Husbandry_. Thomas Tusser, who had received a liberal education at Eton school, and at Trinity hall, Cambridge, lived many years as a farmer in Suffolk and Norfolk. He afterwards removed to London, where he published in 1557, the first edition of his work, under the title of “One hundred points of good husbandry.” In his fourth edition, from which this list is taken, he first introduced the subject of Gardening, and has given us not only a list of the fruits, but also of all the plants then cultivated in our gardens, either for pleasure or profit, under the following heads:— “Seedes and herbes for the kychen, herbes and roots for sallets and sauce, herbes and rootes to boyle or to butter, strewing herbes of all sorts, herbes, branches, and flowers for windowes and pots, herbs to still in summer, necessarie herbes to grow in the gardens for physick not reherst before.” This list consists of more than 150 species besides the following fruits:— Apple Trees of all sorts—Apricots Barberries—Bullass, black and white Cherries, red and black—Chesnuts—Cornet Plums[2] Damsons, white and black Filberds, red and white Gooseberries—Grapes, white and red—Green or Grass Plums. Hurtle Berries.[3] Medlars or Merles—Mulberries. Peaches, white and red[4]—Pears of all sorts. Pear Plums, black and yellow. Quince Trees. Rasps—Raisins.[5] Small Nuts—Strawberries, red and white—Service Trees. Wardons, white and red—Walnuts—Wheat Plums. Footnote 1: This article is taken from the first volume of the Transactions of the Horticultural Society, and was communicated by the Right Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart.—The additions, within brackets, are by the Editor. Footnote 2: Probably the fruit of _Cornus Mascula_, commonly called Cornelian Cherry. Footnote 3: _Hurtleberries_, the fruit of _Vaccinium vitis idea_, though no longer cultivated in our gardens, are still esteemed and served up at the tables of opulent people in the counties that produce them naturally. They are every year brought to London from the rocky country, near Leath Tower in Surrey, where they meet with so ready a sale among the middle classes of the people, that the richer classes scarcely know that they are to be bought.—They also grow very plentifully on some of the hills and heaths in the counties of Somerset and Devon. Footnote 4: The _Yellow fleshed Peach_, now uncommon in our gardens, but which was frequent 40 years ago, under the name of the Orange Peach, was called by our ancestors _Melicoton_. Footnote 5: