Sentence:  The single and only [Royal Wilding apple] tree from which the apple was first propagated is very tall, fair, and stout ; I believe it stands about twenty feet high. It stands in a very little <WSD>quillet</WSD> (as we call it) of gardening, adjoining to the post-road that leads from Exeter to Oakhampton, in the parish of St. Thomas, but near the borders of another parish called Whitestone. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A small plot of land; historically: a strip of land that together with others like it formed a larger field.