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growth^ we obferved fomc Roots fo faft clofed together into one, 

 as not to be divorced : Hereupon we concluded. If cafualty, or 

 negligence, chance of fpade, or oppreffion of neighbourhood did 

 this, by ^rt it might be done more efFeftually, and poffibly to 

 fome defirable purpofe 5 for that then the Stocky was more apt to 

 receive a maftering Impreifiom, and any Garden Plant whatfoever 

 might by this frocef interchange and mingle their Roots. 



And thus we have prefented our diligent Cideriji with what Ob- 

 lervations and Arguments of Encouragement, grounded on fre- 

 quent Experience, we have received from our moft ingenious Corre- 

 jpondents, efpecially the Learned and truly Candid M"^ Beak, in 

 whofe Perjon we have fo long entertain'd you : And to thefe we 

 could add fundry others,were it not now tirne (whiles we difcourfe 

 of pojfibi lit IBS') to conclude with fomething certain , and to fpcak 

 of what we have. 



For the kinds then of Cider-Apples in being ; Glocejter-jhire af- 

 feftsthe Bromsbury Crab j It affords a fmart, winy Liquor, and is 

 peculiarly hardy, but not fo proper for a cold and late-bearing 

 Climate, it being not ripe in hot Land till the end of Autumn, nor 

 fit to be ground for Cider till Chnjimas^ lying fo long in heaps and 

 preparation. 



It is in the fame Shire that they likewife much efteem of the 

 jphite and red Mitji- Apple, the fwceteft as well as fowreft Tepin, and 

 the Warvji- Apple, which (being boyl'd) fome prefer to the very beft 

 of all Ciders. 



But about London, and the more Southern 'I'ralis,xht Tepin,and 

 efpecially the Golden, is efteemed for the making of the moft de- 

 licious of that Liquor, moft wholeibm, and moft reftorative 5 and 

 indeed it may (in my poor judgment) challenge thofe perfe^ions 

 with very good reafon. 



By others the Fear main alone is thought to come in competition 

 with the beft ; but the Cider is for the moft part found of the weak- 

 eft, unlefs encourag'd with fome agreeable Pepin to infpirit it. 

 Some commend the Fox-JVhelp j and the Gennet-Moyle was once 

 preferr'd to the very Red-Jirake, and before the Bromsbury-Crab 5 

 but upon more mature confideration, the very Criticks themfelves 

 now Recant, as being too effeminate and foft for a judicious 

 Palate. 



The Redfirake then amongft thefe accurate Tajiers hath obtain- 

 ed the abfolute praeeminence of all other Cider-fruit, efpecially in 

 Hereford-Jhire, as being the richeft and moft vinous Liquor, and 

 See Aph. 42. now with the more earneftnefs commended to our pradice, for 

 45- 37- its celerity in becoming an Orchard, being ordinarily as full of 

 Frnit at ten years growth as other Trees are at twenty ^ the Pepin 

 or Tearmain at thirty : And laftly, from that no contemptible 

 quality. That 'tis fo wicked a Fruit upon the Iree as needs no Pri- 

 dpus for protedtor, fince (as beautiful as 'tis to the eye) it has fo 

 curfed a tafte in the Mouth till it be converted into Cider. 



In fum. The Red-Jira^e will at three years graffing give youfair 

 hopes, and laft almoft an hundred years : And the Gennet-Moyles 



haften 



