26 Aphorifms concerning Cider. 



56. In fuch foil as is here required, namely of good Tillage^ an 

 Orchard ot graffed Red-Jirakfs will be of good growth, and good 

 burthen, within ^e» or fwefoe ^e^rj, and branch out with good 

 ftore to begin an encouragement at three years graffing j and (ex- 

 cept the land be very unkind) will not yield to any decay within 

 ^ty or eighty years ^ which is a mans age. 



97. In fomey&eef J- 1 rendered many Reafons againft Mr. ^«/?/« 

 of Oxford, why we fliould prefer a peculiar Cz<5/er-jf«/^, which in 

 Herefordfiire are generally called Mttfls ; (both the Jpple and the 

 Lienor, and the Palpe together in the contufion) as from the Latine 

 Mujlum. ivhite-mujis of divers kindes , Red-cheekid and Red- 

 jiralCd Mujls of feveral kinds, Green-mufis called alfo Green-fillet^ 

 and Bletp-jpotted : Why, I fay, we fliould prefer them for Cider, 

 before Table-jrHit, as Pepin f. Fear mains, €^c. and I do ftill infift on 

 them: i. The Liquor of thefe C/(^er-^«if / and of many kinds of 

 auftere fruit, which are no better than a fort of full fucculent 

 Crabs, is more fprightful brifli and roiny. For Effay, I fent up 

 many bottles to London, that did me no difcredit. Secondly, One 

 buftiel of the Cider-fiuit yields twice or thrice as much liquor. 

 Thirdly, The Tree grows more in three or four years then the 

 other in ten years, as I oft times remarked. Fourthly, The Tree 

 bears far greater ftore, and doth more generally efcape Blajis and 

 Frofls oimc Spring : I might add, that fome or thefe, andefpeci- 

 ally fuch Tears as yield the beft Ferry, will beft efoape the hand of 

 the Thief', and may be trufted in the open field^. 



38. Bythe/r/i, fecond and fourth of thefe Reafons, I muft ex- 

 clude the Gennet-Moyle from a right Cider-fruit, it being dry and 

 very apt to tzkeffojiy blajis ; yet it is no Table-fiuit'Jont properly a 

 baking fruit, as the ruddy colour from the 02/e« fhews. 



9 9. I faid that the right Cider-fiuit, generally called Mujis, and 

 deferving the Latine name MuUum, is or divers kinds 5 and I have 

 need to note more exprefly that there is a Red-Jirakid MuH (as I 

 have often feen) but not generally known, that is quite differing 

 from the famous Red-Jirake, being much lels, fomewhat oblong 

 and like fome of the white MuSfs in fhape, and full of a very 

 good »'/»;' liquor. I could willingly name the perfons and place 

 where the diftinft kinds are beft known : it was firft ftiewed me 

 by John Nafl) of Ajljperton in Herefordflme 5 and for fome years they 

 did in fome places diftinguiOi a Red-Jirake, as yielding a richer Red- 

 Jiral^d-cider of a morefulvottt or ruddy colour 5 but this difference, 

 as far as I could find, is but a choice of a better infolated or ruddy 

 fruit of the beft kind, as taken from the South-part of the Tre" or 

 from afoil that renders them richer. But my Lord Scudamore - 

 is fafely of the beft fort ^ and M. Whingate of the Grange in Dimoc, 

 and fome of King' s-capel, do beft know thefe and other differences, 

 Straked, Muji, right Red-Jirake, Red-red-Jirak^,&c. 



40. The greenilb 7l/»/^, (formerly called in the Language of the 

 Country,theGreen-fil/et) when the Liquor \soi a kindly ripenefs, 

 retains a^ree»e/ equal to the /fAewT/S-^/zi/^ which I note for them 

 that conceive no Cider to be fit for ufe till it be of the colowr of old 

 Sack. 41. To 



