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we could never, with all our care, make strong cider 

 with them. The plain truth is, those fruits contain 

 much less sugar than many other fruits which ripen 

 later in the year. The difference in the quantity of 

 sugar in different juices of the apple, is most easily 

 ascertained : take one pint, wine measure, of the 

 juice as soon as it is expressed from the apple ; that 

 juice which weighs the most contains the most su- 

 gar, and will, of course, make the strongest cider. 

 A wine pint of juice to make good and strong cider, 

 ought to weigh from seventeen ounces to seventeen 

 ounces and a half ; if it does not weigh seventeen 

 ounces, the cider, we may be quite sure, will be poor 

 and weak. But we shall have occasion to revert to 

 this subject again. 



Having determined the site and soil for an or- 

 chard, we may now say a few words on the mode of 

 planting it. And on this subject too, opinions are 

 very various ; most persons, however, prefer purchas- 

 ing their trees of the particular sorts which they may 

 wish to rear ; and purchased trees from those who 

 rear them for the purpose of sale, answer in general 

 very well ; it is even supposed, that a change of soil 

 from that in which the trees have grown, is also very 

 often advantageous ; and as few, in planting an or- 

 chard, would choose to wait till they have produced 

 a sufficient number of trees under their own imme- 

 diate nursing, the trees to be planted in an orchard 

 must of course be bought, But were we about to 

 plant an orchard, and disposed to wait the rearing 

 of trees under our own inspection, we should proceed 

 thus : 



