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DISCOURSE 



O F 



CIDER. 



My Lord, 



N obedience to the Csfttmands of this Honour abk 

 Society^ I have at length endeavoured to give 

 this brief Account of that little which I know 

 concerning the Ordering of Cider 5 and in that I 

 fhall propound to my felf j/x- things. 



Firji, To (hew that Cider made of the beft 

 Eating-apples muik needs be tf«fe the beft ; (that 

 is to fay) the pleafanteft Cider. 



Secondly, That hitherto the general opinion hath been other- 

 wife, and that the reafon of that miftake was the not apprehen- 

 ding the true caufe why the Pepin-cider, &c. did not retain its 

 fweetnefs, when the Hard- apple-cider did. 



Thirdly, What is the true caufe that Pepin-cider, ufed in the or- 

 dinary method, will not retain its fweetnefs. 

 Fourthly, How to cure that evil in Pepin-cider. 

 Fiftly, A probable conjefture, how in fome degree by the (ame 

 Method to amend the Hard-apple-cider , and French-rvine, 



Sixthly, That what is here propounded cannot chufe but be 

 wholfome, and may be done to what degree every mans Palate fhall 



wifti. 



Having now told your Lordpip, what I will endeavour to do 

 before I enter upon it , I muft declare what I will not ia the leaft 

 pretend to do. 



I. I do not pretend to any thing concerning the /j/^w^?//^ and 

 graffing of Trees, C^c. 



Nor what Trees will fooneft hear or laji longeft. 



Nor whaty^r^i- of Trees are the beft bearers, and may with leaft 

 danger grow in Common fields. 



Nor whatfirt oi fiuit will yield the greateft ftore oi Cider. 



Nor what Cider will keep the longeft, and be the ftrongeft, and 

 wholefomeft to f/r/»A conltantly with meat. 



The 



