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only excepted, (of which more hereafter) and as yet the Controverfy 
betwixt That and the Royal Wilding continues undetermin’d, 
THE Colour of the Royal Wilding, without any Affiftance of Ari 
in any Kind, is a bright Yellow#/b rather than a Redifh Beerifhb TinGture ; 
The other Qualities are a Noble Body, an Excellent Bitter, a Delicate 
(excufe the Expreffion) Roughnefs, and a fine Vimous' Flavour : All the 
other Qualities you may meet with in fome of the beft of our South- 
Flam Cyder, but the laft is peculiar to the Royal Wilding and the 
Whitfour only, and you will in vain look for it in any other, 
BEFORE I yet leave the Royal Wilding, 1 muft further let you 
know, that it is fometimes called (tho’ no lefs injurioufly than unaccurately) 
the Red-Hill-Crab, from the Name of that Part of the Highway. neat 
which the original Tree ftands, which is called Red-Hill. 
THIS Name is injurious, becaufe Crab (as yet) is ufed among us in 
a Senfe of Diminution, at \eaft, if not of Reproach ; or was it not fo, 
it is plain there is nothing in that Name which fuggefts the fuperlative 
8 pias of ac Fruit , BEES the oan of bes Sean catrieth 1 in 
~ AND this other Name, as I faid, is alfo wmaccurate, baat I rather 
take it for an Apple than a Crab (of which, however, fince you have 
them before you, your felf may judge): For I muft further let you 
know, that tho’ we frequently take the Word Apple for che whole Kind, 
(as we call the whole Kind Horfes, including as well Mares as Hor{es, 
more ftritly fpeaking) yet when we fpeak more exattly, we underftand 
- the Word Apple in Oppofition and Contradiftion to the Crab, which moft 
commonly is a very finall, harfh, yellow Fruit, and ordinarily groweth 
in our Hedge-Rows, tho’ they make very large and very lafting Trees; - 
however, I have {een one Sort of this very finall harfb Fruit finely ftreak’d 
with ved Outfide; and in my Neighbourhood there is one Tree of 
another Kind of hee which is red both Infide and out de; and it is 
the only one of the Kind I ever faw or heard off 
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