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ground. In such years, the cyder will scarcely pay 
for pressing out and carrying to market; I have heard 
of its having been carried many miles, and sold in 
Worcester market for a guinea per hogshead, though 
cyder in the inns at Worcester has been, at the same 
time, Is. per bottle; it pays no duty whilst it remains 
in the hands of the grower, but upon sale it is subject 
to an excise. 
Dr. Nash observes, that two or three tons of cherries 
are often sold in Worcester market, on a Saturday morn¬ 
ing before five o’clock, and that six tons have been 
known to be sold there in one morning ; they are car¬ 
ried to the neighbouring towns, also to Birmingham, 
Wolverhampton, and to Lancashire and Yorkshire. 
I have been very credibly informed, that in some 
such year, the sum of 2,000l. has been paid for ton¬ 
nage of fruit upon the Trent and Severn canal, passing 
to the north. The length of the canal is forty-six 
miles, tonnage is paid I|d. per ton per mile ; the 
quantity passed must, therefore, have been near seven 
thousand tons. 
The cultivation of fruit in this county is of consi¬ 
derable antiquity; it is known to have been celebrated 
for fruit, in the reign of Henry III. near six hundred 
years ago.— Dr. Nash. 
MR. POMEROY ON THE FRUIT PLANTATIONS. 
The fruit plantations do not share, in any pro¬ 
portion, the attention paid to the hops ; such, indeed, 
is the natural fruitfulness of the soil, and so congenial 
to the growth of fruit of every kind, that it flourishes, 
even where most neglected, in a manner unknown to 
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