134 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



some years later, entitled The Most Easie 

 Method for making the Best Cyder (1687). 



He speaks very highly of this beverage, 

 saying : 



"It is generally known, that few foreign drinks, as 

 they are handed to us, are comparable to our English 

 Cyder well made : Those being so adulterated in the 

 several hands through which they pass, that they 

 corrupt instead of repair, the Natures of them that 

 drink them ; " 



so that the dishonest sophistication and 

 illegal marriage of wines are an old story. 



He divides his monograph into sections, 

 thus : 



" I. The choice of the Fruit. 



"II. The Times for gathering and grinding Apples 

 for Cyder. 



"III. The manner of grinding and pressing of 

 Apples for Cyder. 



"IV. The ordering of Cyder after it is pressed. 



" V. The ordering of Cyder in the first Reeking. 



" VI. The ordering of Cyder after it is superfine." 



At the end he announces that 



" This subject will be treated of more at large in 

 the Second Part of Vinetum JBritannicum, now ready 

 for the Press." 



