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vilege. Should; however; my ideas thereof be too san- 

 gume, I beg you ay ill do me the justice to believe that 

 I am, in the utmost purity of intention; and with best 

 wishes for the prosperity of j'our Academy, 



Gentlemen, 



your most faithful, 



and very humble servant, 



A. CEOCKER 



Frame School, Somerset, in England, July 2ot7, 1789. 



A Practical ESSAY on Kaisixg APPLE TREES, and 



Making CIDER. 



THE value and virtues of cider are too well known, to 

 need any encomium from the pen of a modern writer: it 

 will therefore, be more suitable to the intention of an essay 

 on the subject, to point out the best means of procuring 

 this excellent liquor in its purest state. 



To do which, we must not only shew the proper manage- 



ment of the cider itself; but w^e must consider the best 

 kinds of fruit for making it ; the necessary management of 

 the trees from which the fruit is produced; and also, the 

 soil best adapted to the raising of those trees. The several 

 subjects of this anti-climax will, in this essay, be considered 

 in their natural order. 



The soil which, by experience, the writer hereof has found 

 to be best adapted to the raising of apple treeS; in the semi- 

 mmj, is a light, rich loam, that has a less proportion of clay 



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