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Shoots that the Stock of the Tree (hould throw 
out under each Graft ; which, if let alone to 
grow, would prove fo many Robbers to them. — 
All which feveral Pieces of improving a bad 
Sort of Fruit, or unfruitful bearing Trees, is 
much practifed in thefe Parts on both young 
and old Trees, provided the old Sort are not too 
old for the Purpofe. 
Copy of a Letter from a London Correfpon- 
dent, ihewing the Improvement of Cyder- 
Trees and Cyder in Devonjhire and Here- 
jordjhire . 
London , February 27, 1747-8. 
SIR, 
<c 1 " Have minuted down from the Mouth of a 
<c j Man, who lived many Years at Plump - 
<c tree , ten Miles this Side Exeter in Devon , 
“ where, he fays, they make every other Year 
“ (which is the bearing Year) three times as 
“ many Hogfheads of Cyder as there are Men, 
* c Women and Children in the Town. The 
“ Names, he lays, of their Cyder common 
“ Apples, extra of their Gold Pippins (of 
“ which they imploy few or none this Wav, 
“ but keep them as a Referve for Family Ulej 
£C are the Deux Anns, of which they have 
“ Abundance, and make a good Cyder, but very 
“ pale : — The Jerfey is a rough, bitter Apple, he 
“ fays, without which they cannot well make 
41 Cyder, for this makes it of a fine Amber 
“ Colour, 
