

CHAPTER I. 



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THE APPLE. 



One of the good old fathers of English 

 Pomology, some two hundred and fifty years 

 ago, wrote, 



" I have seen in pastures about the grounds 

 of a worshipfull gentleman, dwelling two 

 miles from Hereford, so many Apple trees of 

 all sorts, that the servants drink for the most 

 part no other drink but that which is made of 

 Apples. The quantity is such, that by the 

 report of the gentleman himself, the Parson 

 hath for tythe'many hogsheads of cyder. 



The hogs are fed, with the fallings of 

 them, which are so many, that they make 

 choice of those Apples they do eat, who will 

 not taste of any but the best." 



This little item of history, without going 

 farther back to Roman authority, shows that 



