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180 GARDENS AND ORCHARDS. 
shire, which in a hit have madetwo hogsheads and a half 
of perry, of 110 gallons each ; they must therefore have 
borne 5oO gallons, or about 60 bushels level measure of 
fruit. Mr. Marshal says, I was shewn a pear tree from 
which two hogsheads of liquor were made this year; and 
three hogsheads are said to have been made by one pear 
tree, and two hogsheads are said to have been by one 
apple tree, but these are rare instances ; one hogshead 
of cyder from a tree is reckoned a great produce. 
. Mr. Marshall says further ; I have been informed, by 
undoubted authority, that twenty hogsheads have been 
made from an acre of ground, in a close orchard ; and 
that there are several individuals this year, 1788, who 
will make between two and three hundred hogsheads, 
and some few who will make five hundred hogsheads of 
liquor each, including cyder, perry, and their own fa¬ 
mily drink ; but there are single orchards in Hereford¬ 
shire of thirty to forty acres each. 
It is from these large plantations that the markets are 
supplied ; farmers in general have little more than will 
supply their own houses : it is observable, however, 
that cottagers, who have orchards, have been known, 
in a plentiful year, to make eight or ten hogsheads for 
sale. 
The produce of the four counties of Worcester, 
Gloucester, Hereford, and Monmouth, on a par of 
years, may be laid at thirty thousand hogsheads.— Mr, 
Marshall. 
Notwithstanding this great produce, it has been dis¬ 
puted, whether, upon the whole, it be a good or an 
evil to the neighbourhood, under all circumstances: 
the damage done to the crops, by the drip and shade of 
the trees, is annual and certain ; a hit of fruit is most 
uncertain, and not expected oftener than every third 
year ; when the produce is abundant, the price is so 
low, 
