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Chap, IT. 
Of the Clay Earths of Devonshire and 
Herefordshire, as they relate to the 
Plattting of Applo-Tdrees on them . 
I N Part of thefe Countries I have travelled, 
but not fo much as I wifh I had ; however, 
much of this Deficiency is made up to me, by 
fending a young Man into Devonfoire to be 
Baily or Hind to a Gentleman, whofe Eftate 
lies near the Edge of the £ out hams, of five 
hundred Pounds a Year ; where he lived be- 
tween two and three Years with one who is 
juftly accounted to have an Orchard of the be ft 
of Cyder Fruit, and to underftand the making 
of Cyder as well as any in that County, as is 
well known to fome of the beft Cyder Judges; 
I mean, to the neighbouring Gentlemen that 
live in thofe Parts ; and of whofe Management, 
with that of his Servants, in the hufoanding of 
his Trees, and making of Cyder, I (hall in 
many Inftances give my Reader an Account. 
Thefe Counties, in moft Places, abound with 
a clayey, loamy Soil, in which are their beft 
Plantation of Apple-Trees, where Clays have 
fome Mixture with Loam, or at leaft a loamy 
Surface; and as moft Clay Soils lie in Vale or 
low Situations, they keep the Roots of Trees 
moift, and their Heads the leaft expofed to the 
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