iv PREFACE. 
as mentioned by them. Nor could I have been 
Mafter of this fuperior Knowledge, had I not 
travelled in Devonjhire , and fettled fuch a Cor- 
refpondence with a mod accute Planter and Cy- 
derift there, who from Time to Time commu- 
nicated to me the'difterent Natures of their Soils, 
their beft Methods of railing and planting their 
Apple-Trees, dreffing them afterwards, gather- 
ing and hoarding their Fruit, grinding and pref- 
ling them in their feveral Sorts of Mills and 
Prefles, making their Cyders, fermenting and 
racking them, and preferving them in Calks 
rightly prepared, for keeping them long in a 
found, pleafant Condition , and alfo from my 
own Pra&ice, as feveral of my inclofed Fields 
have Apple and Pear-Trees growing on their 
Grafs-Baulks. 
Contrary to what happened to a moft noble 
Perfon, poflefled of one of the greateft landed 
Eftates in this Kingdom, yet was not Mafter of 
an Orchard, though both he and his Lady were 
great Lovers of Cyder. It is true, they had ma- 
ny Dwarf Apple-Trees, of the beft Sorts of eat- 
ing Apples near their Seat, about thirty Miles 
from London , and once had a Hoglhead of Cy- 
der made from them 5 but, it becoming four 
before Tapping, itfo difcouraged the Lord, that 
he never had the like attempted, but bought a 
Hoglhead of Cyder of me, that was made 
from right South ams Cyder Apples to the Satif- 
fadtion of the Family. It is therefore to be 
hoped, that this Treatife will come into the 
Hands 
