:The air is healthy and the soil in general fruitful and of infinite variety; vines naturally flourishing upon the hills, bear grapes in most luxuriant plenty. They have every growth which we possess in England, and almost every thing that England wants besides. The orange and the lemon thrive in the same common orchard with the apple, and the pear tree, plumbs, peaches, apricots and nectarines, bear from stones in three years growing.”—Sir Robert Montgomery, 1717
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