CONCERNING CIDER 



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The disappearance of cider from every-day England 

 is largely a Victorian phenomenon, and, with the revival 

 of taste in literature and domestic architecture, cider is 

 again showing signs of winning its way back into popular 

 favour. "I do only wish upon the prospect and 

 meditation of the universal benefit that every person 

 whatever, worth ten pounds per annum, within Her 

 Majesty's dominions, were by some indispensable statute, 

 obliged to plant his hedge-rows with the best and most 

 useful kinds of fruit trees. Undoubtedly, if this course 

 were taken effectually, a very considerable part both of 



