The Preface. 
jure of this Exercife,and of the advantage that 
it will bring, to them and the Nation in general. 
It may bealfo objected, that the ufc of Cider 
being now common, and the planting of Fruit- 
trees become univerfal in this ljh, and Cider 
made almoftin every Village, and many Trails 
already written that contain in them the mojl 
excellent Precepts, Rules, Obfervations , and 
Experiments that can be imagined, for the pro¬ 
pagating of the Trees, and making this Liquor, 
That this fucceeding Trail .nay be needlefs. To 
which 1 anfwer, that although in Jome part it 
may feem to be true vp hat is here objelled, yet is 
not the ufe of 'Cider fni!y known,nor the plant¬ 
ing of Trees Jo much encreafed,Oi to amount un¬ 
to a twentieth part of what in probability 
it may be in a few years j neither doth one in 
ten offulflantial Houfekeepers in the greateji 
part of the Nation make,or fcarce know howto 
make this Drink; And as for the Book/ that 
treat of this SubjeS,they are but few, and what 
is mentioned in them of it fs but here and there 
a little. The mojl, and all indeed that is writ¬ 
ten of it well, is in that incomparable Trail of 
Mr. Evelin (his Pomona at the end of his Vo¬ 
luminous Sylva) which every one that may be 
capable of a fmall Plantation, is not willing to 
pur chafe. The conjideration of all which, did 
induce me to tal^eupon me the pie afire of profe- 
cuting 
