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IT appears to be properly a Wilding, that is, a Tree rais’d from the 
Kernel of fome other Apple, withour having been ever Grafted, and 
(what feems well worthy being obfery’d) hath, in all probability, ftood 
there much more than feventy Years ; for two antient Perfons of the 
neighbouring Parifh of W. hitftone, who died each of them feveral Years 
fince, aged upward of the Number of Years now mention’d, declar’d, 
That when they were Boys, and firft went the Road, it was not only 
growing there at that time, but, what is very well worth Notice, was 
then as tall and ftout as it now appears, (and we may reafonably fuppofe 
that was when they were each about 12 or 13 Years of Age); nor do 
there appear at this time any Marks of Decay upon it, as far as I took 
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IT is a very conftant and plentiful Bearer every other Year, and then 
ufually produceth Apples enow to make one of our Hogfheads of 
Cyder, which contains 64 Wine Gallons ; and this was one Occafion 
of its being firft taken Notice of, and yields an Hiftory which I believe 
no other Tree ever did: For the little Cot Houfe to which it belongs, 
ogether. with the little Quillet (as aforefaid) in which it flands, being 
feveral Years J ounds, the Fruit of this Tree 
fince” mortwaged” For cen 
alone, in a Courfe of fome Years, freed the Houfe and Garden, and its 
more valuable Self, from that Burden which is wont to involve all other 
Eftates in one common Ruin. 
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. Mr. FRANCIS OLIVER: (a Gentleman. of the Neighbourhood, and, 
if I miftake not, the Gentleman who had the Mortgage juft now men- 
tion d). was one of. the firft Perfons about Exeter that affected the Rough 
Cyder, and for that Reafon purchafed the Fruit of this Tree every bearing 
_ Year: However, [ cannot learn that he ever made it Separate and apart, 
but méx’d it with other Apples, which notwithftanding added an /q- 
vantage to his Cyder, with all thofe who had any true Relith for that 
Liquor. £ 
_ WHETHER it was this or any other Motive, I cannot particularly 
fay, that brought on the more happy Experiment on, this Apple, But 
the. Reverend Mr. Robert Woolcomle, (ReGor of Whitftone, the Parifh 
before mention’d) who ufed to amufe himfelf with a Nurfery, put on 
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