POMONA: O, 
into Meadeate, and that as eafily into (what the better Sort ufually 
pronounce it) Mideate, tho’ whether it be the Faé or only the Invi- 
tation and Facility of the Etymology, that gave occafion to this Account 
of it, I cannot take upon me to affirm; only I am more inclin’d to 
think che /atter, becaufe I never hear the Farmer, or Effate, or Parifp, 
or even the Part of the South-Hams mention’d, (for ‘tis faid to be ori 
ginally of that Country) where this Tree, or this Gate, or this Meadow 
was, or how long fince it begun to be propagated ; all which we can 
point out of the Royal Wilding, as you have before feen. 
THE Apple hath been long known ; it is common in the Orchards 
of feveral Farmers, (but of more Gentlemen) tho’ until of late there 
were but few of thofe Farmers that fet any great Value on them. 
THESE are the three Sorts of Apples, in our County, which do-as 
yet carry the greateft Reputation for Cyder. You defire of me further, 
an Account of fome Wildings of my own, which yielded a Liquor that 
was talked of every where, about three Years fince; and in that alfo I 
fhall endeavour to gratify you. They were the Produce of fome 
Kernels of the Red-ftreak Apples, which, when fit to be tranfplanted, I 
‘et round two of the Fields near my Houle, (ince tured into Orchards) 
wit r them : nerality of them (whether cramp'd 
by the adjoining Hedges or not, I cannot really fay) make but a fall 
Tree : the Fruit of them is various, moftly very finall, (as al] Waldings — 
ufually are, but the fmaller the Apple in Reafon, the Letter the Cyder, 
is a conftant Rule among us) and generally ftreak’d with Red, and 
many of them (I mean the Produce: of feveral of the Trees} not very 
much wnlike, for from the Kernels of the Jelf-fame Apples, you know 
we have always very different Sorts of Fruit. : Rig 
BESIDES fome other Differences of lofi Note to be oblery'd in 
thefe Waldings ; the Fruit of fome few of the Trees is confiderably 
Jarger than that of the Generality of the others, (avhich like smoft 
Wildings is (mall) and fome of them are more ftreak’d with Red-than 
