V 
PREFACE. 
Hands of many, who, by reading it's plain, 
practical Dire&ion^ will be induced to encou- 
rage planting the true Sort of Cyder Apple- 
Trees, and Perry Pear-Trees with Expedition, 
as it will certainly (where there is a Conveni- 
ency for it) anfwer theirs and the Nation’s In- 
tereft in general, befides preferving their Healths 
and Lives, which Thoufands have loft by tip- 
ling expenfive, fophifticated, adulterated Fo- 
reign Wines, that retain in them fuch a tarta- 
rous Quality (as Docftor Quincy rightly obferves, 
at Page 217, in his Difpenfatory) as breeds the 
Gout and other Difeafes, which Cyder is a per- 
fect Antidote againft, as well as again ft our 
reigning Britijh Difeafe, the Scurvy. 
As to the common Objection, that Apples 
will be ftole, if their Trees are planted in 
Hedges, Woods* Fields, or Orchards; it is a 
wrong Notion, for that the right Sort of Cyder 
Apples and Perry Pears are not eatable, yet 
make the beft of Cyder and Perry; for the 
more lufcious an Apple is for the Mouth, the 
vvorfe it is for the Cafk ; therefore the Gold 
Pippin is not here advifed planting, as Sir 
Jonas More ftrenuoufly does in his Cyder-Book. 
Its Juice is of too weak a Nature to keep long, 
and warm the Drinker, unlefs mix’d with a 
ftronger Sort; which leads me to anfwer another 
Objection, 
That Cyder is a weak, infipid, griping Li- 
quor. This I own to be true, as rnoft is that 
is made in London and elfewhere of wrong 
A 3 Cyder 
