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produced on soils of directly opposite qualities. 

 However, to convince my neighbours of Wilt- 

 shire, that the cause of their inferiority was in 

 their bad assortment of apples, and not in their 

 soil or climate ; I, many years since, selected 

 some apples of the sort there called the cad- 

 berry, which grew in a very poor, shallow, 

 black, gravelly soil, resting on a chalk subsoil ; 

 and made cider from them: and this cider 

 proved, and was allowed by many good judges 

 who tasted it, to be as rich, strong, and full- 

 bodied, as any that grew on the richest lands, 

 or most famous districts. I also gathered from 

 one tree of the sort called the golden ducat, 

 growing on a soil of the same description, forty 

 bushels of apples, and these were made into 

 cider, which, like the apple itself, proved to be a 

 brilliant, sparkling, delicious, vinous liquor. In 

 the same orchard the greater part of the apples 

 were of the worst sorts, green, thin and sour ; 

 and when mixed, made a thin sour cider. I 

 also, by way of demonstration, made cider from 

 various other fruits separately, and among the 

 rest, of a green hard apple, called the stone 

 pippin, which being well known to keep well, 

 and after long keeping, to ameliorate and be- 

 come palatable ; I wished to prove if the cider 

 also would improve by keeping : which it did 



