CHERRY TREE RESTORED. 



formed usually by the old man, in the way above 

 reprobated. With the utmost difficulty she in- 

 duced him to change his method, the happy conse- 

 quence of which was, that thereafter we had as fine 

 beer as any in the county; which we often proved 

 by placing a decanter of it side by side with the 

 finest of Allan and Smyth's sherry, which it equalled 

 in brightness. 



Another defect of precedent also, we found there. 

 A fine Morello cherry-tree had, for many years, 

 blossomed luxuriantly, but never borne fruit. How 

 the same doctress made a radical cure in that case 

 likewise, until the branches required propping, in 

 order to enable them to support the weight of fruit, 

 I have related in another place. In fine, to return to 

 beer, the following, however old, are sound and excel- 

 lent maxims : " Let your wort lie some time in the 

 underbade, to draw it from the faeces there; be 

 equally careful to run it off fine, out of the cooler 

 into the tun, and from the tun into the cask : in all 

 which several places, the wort and drink may be had 

 clear and fine : there will then be no more sediments 

 than are just necessary to assist and feed the beer, and 

 preserve its spirit. But when time and convenience 

 allow of the utmost nicety, recourse may be had to 

 the sieve of Hippocrates (a flannel bag in a hoop) for 

 straining off the bottoms." 



To FINE thick beer. Brewers' finings (as before) 

 to be obtained at the ale-house, are the most usual 

 remedy. Or ISINGLASS cut small and boiled, one 

 ounce in three quarts of beer, kept all night to cool, 

 and put into a hhd. perfectly COLD, the beer being 



