P O M O N Ai 



Or An Appendix Concerning 



FRUIT-TREES, 



In relation to 



CIDER: 



The Making, and feveral ways of Ordering it. 



THE PREFACE. 



At Quercus was the Proverb 5 and it is none time to tc>alk^<t^^^^ j, ^^ , 

 out of Me Woods into the Fields a little^ and to confi- ineos^quin- 

 der what Advancement may be there Hkewife made by USo viSufw- 

 tbe flauting «?/ F R U I T-T R E E S. Far after the dido,ad ek^ 

 Earth is dtdy cultivated, and pregnant with a Crop ofj"""'"'^/ 



torem 



^ Grain; it is onely by the Furniture of fuch Trees as ^J"*^'^^^' 

 ^e<ir Fruit, that it becomes capable of any farther \xn- ^^ 

 proyement. If then by difcovering how this titay belt be effeCfed I can but 

 raife a worthy emulation in our Countrey-men ; this addition of noble 

 Ornament, as well as <?/ Wealth and Pleafure, Food and Wine, may (I 

 preJume')obtainfome grateful admittance amongji a// promoters oflndujiry. 

 Ent before I proceed, Imu§t, and do ingenuoufy acknowledge, that I 

 prefent «iy Reader here with very little of my own, fave the pains of 

 collefting and digefting a few dijpers'd Notes (butfuch as are to me ex- 

 ceedingly precious) which I have receiv'dj Come, from worthy, and 

 molt experienc'd"^ Vx\ev\As of mine '^ and others, from the well-fur- *ErpedalIy 

 fjijlj'd Regiftcrs , and Cimelia of the ROYAL SOCIETY, from the ' 

 Ef^ecially, thofe Aphorifms, and Treatifes relating to the Hiftory of 1"°^ ^^cd- 



Cider, which by exvrefs commands they have been pleas' d to injom I j",7 !^^T" 

 a. ij\, Lin, -.LCI edMr.Bea/r, 



Jhouldpubhjhwjth my Sylva. _ ofreaviirm 



It is little more than an Age, fince Hopps (rather a Medical, than Somerfet- 

 Alimental Vegetable) tranfmnted our wholefome Ale into Beer , which ,lhire,z Mem-s 

 doubtlefs much alter d our Conftitutions : That one Ingredient ( by ber of the 



fame not unworthily Juj^e^ed')preferving Drink indeed,and fo by cujiom Royal Sod- 

 made agreeable ; yet repaying the pleafure with tormenting Difeafes, ^^^' 

 and aporter life, may dejervedly abate our fondnefs to it ; e^ecially, if 

 with this be conjider'd likewife , the cafualties in planting it , as fel- 

 dom fucceeding more than once in three years -^ yet requiring conjiant 

 charge and culture 5 Bejides that it is none of the leati devourers of 



young Timber. 



Andwhat if alih^ CTiXe, or indeed one quarter of it, were (for the 



future) converted to the propagation tff Fruit-trees, in all parts of this 

 Nation J as it is already in fome, for the benefit of Cider ? (one Shire 



A alone 



