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peared so pertinent, that Evelyn advised him 

 to commit his notions to paper, and supplied 

 him with the portion of it which relates to 

 the preparation of wines. 



The other two publications to which I 

 have referred above were not identical in 

 scope. That by Hughes, printed before 

 1670, deals principally with the treatment 

 and propagation of the vine, while the Vine- 

 turn Britannicum of the accomplished 

 Worlidge (1676) was dedicated rather to 

 the manufacture of cyder and other drinks 

 derived from fruit, with a description of a 

 cyder-press; and when he re-issued his 

 volume in 1678 and 1691, he appended an 

 Apiarium, or Discourse on Bees, a subject 

 which, as I must take this opportunity of 

 mentioning, had been handled by Thomas 

 Hill and Edmund Southerne in the reign of 

 Elizabeth, and by Remnant, Levett, and 

 others, in the following century, but by no 

 one so capably as by Worlidge. 



Besides such men as Evelyn and Rose, and 

 the professional writers on the subject, we 

 find Sir William Temple trying to improve this 



