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Hogfhead more than other Cyder, becaufe thefe 
two Apples agree extream well in their ripening, 
and in the delicate Tade of their Juices. — The 
true Sort of this Cyder is difficult to be had. 
The Meget > or Medyat .Cyder- Apple, —This' 
Apple, though of the common Sort, I think 
little inferior to the White-four and Cornijh 
Apple, notwithdanding it is accounted the 
hardeft and roughed Fruit of any, being of fo 
harfh a Nature, as hardly eatable when full 
ripe; for which Reafon it is the bed Fruit of 
all others to grow near a Highway or Common, 
at a good Diftance from a Houfe ; and in this 
Manner I have feen whole Orchards in Devon- 
shire with little other Fruit befides Meget Apple- 
Trees. This Apple is of a longifh Form, and 
of a yellow Colour when full ripe, which is not 
till Allhallontide . It is reckoned one of the bed 
of Bearers, as it commonly bears well every 
Year, provided the Trees are rightly managed ; 
and I have drank Cyder made of this Sort of 
Fruit alone, that was near equal to that made 
entirely from the Sweet-four and the Cornijh 
Apples: But to attain this Perfection by this 
Sort of Meget Apple, it requires a much longer 
Time in hoarding than milder Fruits, and more 
Racking to take off that (harp, rough Tafte, 
which would otherwife render it very unplea- 
fant, and even hardly drinkable. However, it 
is a very agreeable Apple ; firft, becaufe it is, as 
T faid, one of the greateft and mod certain 
Bearers; for when mod other Apple-Trees are 
