POMON A: QO, 
I MUST add, that Mr. Woolcombe hath referved fome of them for 
Hoard ; I have tafted the Tarts of them, and they come nearer to the 
Quince than any other Tart I ever eat of. 
WHERE-EVER it hath been tried as yet, the Juices are perfectly 
Zood, (but better in fome Soils than others) and when the Gentlemen of 
South-Hams will condefcend to give them a Place in their Orchards, 
they will undoubtedly exceed us in this Liquor, becaufe we mutt yield 
to them in the Apple~Soil : But it is happy for us that at prefent they 
are fo wrapt up in their own Sufficiency, that they do not entertain any 
Thoughts of fetching Apples from us ; and when they fhall, it muft be 
another twenty Years before they can do any thing to Purpofe, tho’ 
fome of their more thinking Gentlemen I am told begin to get fome of — 
them tranfported thither, (by Night you may fuppofe, partly for Shame, 
and partly for Fear of being mobbed by their Neighbours) and will, Iam 
well: “ited, much ene in the Produétion. — 
ab. aM peronally peguaines with Mr. Woolcombe, and i I may be 
; ry, (as iris here re= 
lated) I can promife you I face the Subftance from his own Mouth, and 
am fo perfectly poflefled with a Perfuafion of the Excellency of the 
Cyder, that I doubt not in the Courfe of twenty Years more, when 
‘Gentlemen fhall have furnifh’d themfelves with the Fruit, and the Far- 
mets fhall have fallen in with it alfo, this County will be render’d abun-_ 
dantly happy in it ; and therefore I could really with, that whenever the 
_ Original Tree dccutele (if it ever fhall, tho I affure my felf the Fruit 
will newer be out of Ue) his Statue (carved out of the,Srump, but by 
the fineft Hand, and overlaid with Gold) may be erected near the 
publick Road in the Place of it, at the common =e of the oy 
of Devon. 3 
“WH AT other Fruits there 1 may BEF in Natuve, neither you nor I can 
, becaule j you well know. whenever we fow the Kernels of any Apples, 
‘we have always V avieties of mew and unknown Apples produced ; but 
I will | venture to affirm I never tafted any Cyder equal to it, (not all the 
ee ever drank) that of the W bit four (Lig. Il. Plate LXXVII.) 
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