?H4 MANAGEMENT OF ORCHARDS. 



chards of Buckland Pricry is faid to be the 

 oldefl in the country, and this is fpoken of 

 &s being about two hundred years old. 



NeverUielefs, this Orchard is flill fully 

 ftocked, and in full bearing ! A fad: which 

 the Orchardmen of Herefordfhire will not 

 readily credit. A fad:, however, which is 

 peFfed:iy reconcileable, when the prad:ice 

 ^f this Diftri(lt is explained *. 



2. The AGGREGATE QUANTITY of 



(Orchard ground, in this Diftrid, is confide- 

 rable. F or though the Orchards in gene-r 

 ral are imall, compared with thofe of Here- 

 fordfhire, &:c. -, yet the Farms being alio 

 fmall, and each having its Orchard, the 

 number is of courfe great . Neverthelefs, 

 the proportional quantity of Orchard 

 grounds to culturable lands, is much lefs, 

 here, than in the Mayhill Diilrid: -f, 



3. The 



* This particular, with many others relating to the 

 prefent fubje£l, I had from Mr. Stapleton of Monk's 

 Buckland ; who may, I believe, be faid to have a more 

 accurate knowlcdije of the manasrement of Orchards and 

 Cider, than any other man in the country. 



+ Orchards of Cornwall. The Cider country, 

 J ajn well informed, does not reach more than half the 



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