Or, An Appendix concerning Fruit- Trees,d^c. i 5 



haften to an Orchard for Cider without trouble of Art or Graffing : 

 But note. That this Tree is very apt to contract a bnr-kpot neer ^^\ ^'-JP" 

 its Trunk, where it begins to divide^ and being cut off under /• /c 

 that bofs^ commonly grows ("if fo fetj and becomes (pcedily a jgj. 

 Tree, except it encounter an extraordinary dry Summer the firft 

 year to give it check. And though the knack oi graffing be fb ob- 

 vious, yet this more appearing facility docs fo pleafe the lazy 

 Clowns, that in fome places they neither have nor defire any other 

 Orchards 5 and how^ this humour prevails yoii may perceive by the 

 hafty progrefs of our Kenttjb Codlin in moft parts of England. 



But to advance again our Red-Jirake,eyen above the Pepin, and 

 the reft (befides the celerity of the improvement and conftant bur- 

 then) confidcr we the moft incredible produft, fince we may ex- 

 peft from each Jppk more then double the quantity , fo as in the 

 feme Orchard, under the fame culture, thirty Red-ftrake Trees ftiall 

 at ten years gracing yield more Cider J^cnz. hundred of thoCe Pe-^ 

 fins, and (urmount them in proportioi^uring their period at leaft 

 fixty or feventy years : So that granting the Cider of the Golden- 

 Pepin ftiould excel, (which with fome is precarious J yet *tis in no 

 wile proper for a C7<^er-0rfA<ir<^, according to our general defign, 

 not by half fo foon bearing, nor fo conjiantlj/, nor in that quantity^ 

 nor fulnefs or fecurity. 



Concerning Perry, the Horfe-Pear and Bare-land-Pear are re- 

 puted of the beft, as bearing almoft their weight of fpriteftil and 

 vinous Liquor. The Experienced prefer the tawny or ruddy fort, ^pj, .1 

 as the colour of all other moft proper for Perry : They will grow Aph! 34! 

 in common-fields, gravelly, wild, and Jiony ground, to that large- 

 nefs, as one only Tree has been ufually known to make three or four 

 Hogpieads : That of Bosbury , and fome others, are fo tart and 

 harih that there is nothing more (afe from plunder, when even a 

 Swine will not take them in his mouth. But thus likewife would 

 the abundance preferve thefe Fruits, as we fee it does in Normandy. 



CHAP. V. 



Of the Place and Order. 



WE do ferioufly prefer a very wild Orchard,zs mainly intend- 

 ed for the publick utility, and to our purpofe of obliging 

 the People, as with a fpeedy Plantation yielding ftore for Cider • 

 Upon this it is that we do fo frequently inculcate, how well they 

 thrive upon Arable , whiles the continuing it fo accelerates the 

 growth in almoft half the time: And if the Arable can be fo le- 

 veird, (as commonly we fee it for Barly-hnd) then without detri- 

 ment it may aflume the Ornament of Cyrus, and flourifh in the 

 ^incunx. 



If it be fallow Land, or muft be rais'd with high Ridges, then 



C 2 'tis 



