of Husbandry and Gardening? I'

We are informed by the lame great Author,that the Fruits of Rome , in about an hundredYears, came from Countries as far as their Con-quests had reached, and made their great Ad-vances in Italy about the Augustan Age.

But let us examine now the Climates theyseverally came from, that we may the betterknow how to place them in our Gardens, andbegin with the Mala Epirotica orAbricot, whichwas brought from Epire , or Epirus , a Provincein Greece. It was separated from Macedon bythe River Calydnus and Mount Pindus ; theirchief Cities were Lerta , Beftia , Preveza , &c.there the Abricot grew or was esteem’d natu-ral, about forty Degrees North Latitude,which is four Degrees more South, or nearerthe South than the Cherry. A Gentleman toldme, about sour Years since, of an Abricot,which had a smooth Skin, which came fromthe Coast of Barbary , where I am informedthis kind of Fruit grows wild;.but yet the De-gree of Latitude is the same with Part of Greece ,lo that its Government in the Garden is thesame.

Next let us consider the Mala Persic a , whichwe mean when we speak of Peaches. Theyhave their Name from Perfia , but that is so ge-neral, that we know not where to six ourPoint; for Perfia extends itself from about thir-ty to forty Degrees; but if we take the Mediumof that, then we suppose them to grow all inthe same Place .- It is about thirty five DegreesNorth Latitude; but it is likely their early fortsgrow in Places near the Caspian Sea, five De-grees North from the middle of Perfia , which ismy Persian Latitude; and our latest Peaches mightcome from those Parts nigh towards th t PersianB L Gulf,