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had, and put on : Whether any one of thefe y ingly would make fuch 
Cyder, I much queftion, (that it would make very good I do not doubt) 
not can I fay whether among them there may be one or more, which, 
if tried eparately, might afford a Juice equal (or fuperior) to that of 
any other Apple hitherto known : I have not yet examin’d them fo ex- 
attly as to find any Reafon for fingling out any of them to make fuch 
Experiment, or if Thad, you know it rene be a long Courfe of Years 
to difcover the Event...» « “;. » es 
I HAVE ee planted out two Orchards with Wild ings fromthe 
Kernels (or Pips-as.we call them), of the Royal WAlding, the Trees 
* that they’ have not yet afforded me Opportunity for 
att Experiment : "The Fraie pa any of them have hitherto fhewn, 
feems to lay a good Foundation for Expettation. Wildings of one 
Sort or another, will, for the. future, be I believe chiefly cultivated 
among us; and would Gentlemen fow the Kernels of the Red- -ftreak 
in seein as I did, I fee not why they might not reafonably pro- 
mife themfelves the /ike Succels ; and- would they now and then give 
themfelves the Trouble to promote any one of their Wildings, that to 
wethe Tate feemeth to bid fair Serer p Pee of them for sever a 
Il know nolawhat" Diprene somight be iin 
who can lays eee may . s 
mona, an Offspring that may equal, or even exceed, the Royal Wilding 
or Whitfour themfelves, fince the Sorts of mew Apples that are to 
be raifed from Kernels, are, as I before fuggefted, plainly Numberle(s. 
TO make this Account of - our Cyders as complete as I can, I 
muft in the laft Place mention to you another Sort, which hath not 
been heard of among us more than fix or feven Years: The Name 
of it 1s Cockagee, or Cackagee, (for the Word, as far as I can learn, 
is Lrifh, in which I, as well as you, am no Critick): The Fruit is ori- 
ginally ftom Ireland, and the Cyder much valued in that Country : 
About fixteen or eighteen Years fince (if I am rightly’ informed) it was 
firft brought over, and promoted about Minehead in Somerfet/hire. 
Some Gentlemen of that County have got enough of it now to make 
five, fix, or eight Hogfheads a Year of the Cyder ; and fuch -as have 
to {pare from their own Tables, fell, I am, told, from four to eight 
Pounds an Hogthead. 
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