Pepin-cider, are very found, and may be ufed to the advance- 
ment of 4// our Ciders. I had the laft year two parcels of Pe« 
pin-Cider 3 of the one but few bottles, and that was the Drop- 
pings of the cA^e/? (fowe call the Apples when ground and 
preft ) after we had wrung it as far as we couldjand that comes 
away without any mixture at all of the Pulp of the Apple, be- 
ing that Flying Lee mentioned by Sir Paul The other ^ a Veflel 
containing two Hogsheads 3 and that (following the reafon of 
the direftions he giveth, but not having Veflels to draw it off 
that Flying Lee when fetled , and to purfue thofe diredions 
exaftly, ) I ftrained thorow a courfe cloth into the Veffel^ and 
by that means eas'd it of much of that Lee. Both were excel-- 
lent good^both for Colour and Tafte 3 but the Bottles beft^be, 
ing the mod delicious and luxuriant Cider , and moft pleafing 
both for colour and taft^ that ever I knew 3 yet I have had as 
good Red-firake as ever I drank in any place* 
I do commend,for the advancing of Ciderin richnefs both 
for Taft and Colour 3 a NewCask3 provided it be made of 
Timber very well leafon*d ; otherwife it may fpoil it utterly* 
The Veflel I mention'dj wherein I had my Pepin-Cider , was 
fuch. And I have often tried it^ and found that fort of Cask to 
improve Cider* 
The beftCiderj I ever had, was Redjlrak? grafted upon a 
Cennet-moyle flock^ Forj as thofe kinds dobeftagree^ and tlie 
Trees lb grafted feldom Canker (" as do the old Red-ftrake 
oponaCrab-ftock^fothe Fruit is far more ingenuous and mil* 
der, and being ripe, both rich and large and good to eat, and 
the Cider is more fmooth^ and abates in ftrength and harfhnels 
of that on the Crab , and needs left of mellowing before ma- 
king 3 the ftock in degree altering and reclaiming the nature 
of the Fruit. For^ as an Apple doth beft grafted on a Crab^ 
which gives acrimony and quicknefs to the Fruit 3 fo a Crab 
(and theRed-ftrakeisno other ) grafted on an Apple^ recei* 
veth thence gentlenelsj and Ibftnefi^andlargeneis^ and an ex^ 
cellent alloy to the (harpnefs, and ( as Mr. Evelin calb it ) the 
mc/{edne/o[the Fruit. Which(being but a difcourfe of the In* 
tercourfe between the Saps both of Stock and Graft ) puts me 
in mind to beg from you the judgement of thofe Gentlemen of 
the K. Society^ that bend their thoughts to this way of know- 
ledge concerning the defcent of the Sap in Wintei^which is now 
Yy 2 ^ gene- 
