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cc Colour, which without this would be very 
<c pale. They put a Bag of thefe Jerfeys to 
<{ feven of the rough other Sort of Apples for 
“ making a Hcgfhead. N. B. A Bag con- 
“ tains two Bufhels and three Pecks Corn 
“ Meafure. — French Long-Tails make a 
€t pretty high colour’d Liquor, but not fo high 
“ as the Jerfey . — The Royal Wilding, — the 
" Culvering, — the RuiTet, — the Holland Pip- 
“ pins, and the Cowley Crabs ; — thefe are lar- 
ger than the common Sorts, being the Pro- 
“ dud of a Crab grafted upon a Crab, are al- 
“ ways green, and make a flrong Cyder. — * 
<c Two Bags of common Crabs to a Plogfliead 
“ will improve the Cyder, and make it much 
u flronger. 
<c And from a Ilerefordjhire Man I learn’d 
“ the following Particulars, viz. Pie told me, 
“ they have three principal Sorts of Apples for 
“ making prime Cyder, viz. the Water Apple, 
“ the Fox Whelp, and the Redftrcak ; the firft 
“ is the beft, and as big as one’s double Fill, 
“ and commonly laft gathered. — The Farmers 
€< here commonly give the Walkings, fo called 
<c here, which you call Pomepirk, to poor People, 
<c and makes pretty Tipple from them. — In He- 
<c reford/hire , he fays, they open the Earth about 
<c the Roots of their Apple-Trees, lay them bare 
<c and expofed for the twelve Days of Cbrijlmas 
“ Holidays, that the Wind may ioofen them ; 
c< but if they fall they matter it not. Aher- 
“ wards they cover them with a Compofl made 
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