The Fruir-Garven -dduftrated. 
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only wife People would be more fparing in that firft Racking, that they 
may thereby deftroy that Lafcivionfnefs which may be acceptable to a 
Female or a Londoner, but is ever offenfive to a bold and generous Weft- 
Saxon. 
WHAT I have now faid of Racking the Whitfour holds good of all 
the other better Cyders \ikewife, and is the true Reafon of the Advance 
of the South-Ham Cyder into that Reputation which it hath gotten of 
late Years: A fhort Account of which will not (it may be) prove un- 
acceptable. 
THE Claret in which our truly Loyal Gentlemen ever drank the 
Church and King, was ftopp’d from Frame by the —~ Revolution : 
It was impoffible they could live without Drink, and as impoflible to 
have it in a fair Way (any other you know they akways fcorn’d) from 
Bourdeaux: They had endured an half Famine, (that of Drink) and as 
Magifter Artis Ingeniique Largitor Venter, they applied themfelves to 
amprove the Produce of their own Fruit. This of frequent Racking was 
the happy and fitcce/sful Thought, -by which they found their rougher 
Fruits fo ~_ mended, that I make no doubt, if a free Trade with 
ramce.was now ee ‘open “di. the _Import of the Sinaller Clarets would 
bE ab mtyfefened, and twenty—¥ ise teesors W ren Royal Wilding 
and W hitfour may Saone tay. onda, Bourdeauy: itfelf may 
feel the Effects of it. 
| WHILST I am {peaking to you of Racking, I muft not omit to fay, 
that a Perfon in my Neighbourhood, who had the Whitfour in his Or- 
chard many Years, (tho either by mixing it with other Fruits, or for 
want of the Zalent of proclaiming it, he never contributed towards 
raifing its Reputation) hath told me, That unlefs you watch it carefully, 
and take its firt Separation from. the grofler Lyes, (which will be in a 
very few Days) it is a difficule Matter ever to get it fine after. And 
this perhaps would be no ill Rule to be obfery’d in all the frronger 
_ Cyders ; tho’ whether this was his Cafe in a Jingle “Year only, (and 
fach Cafes I know are frequently to be met with) or whether he always 
found it fo, I do not remember that I enquired of him. 
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