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Show The Epiftle Dedicatory. fories of Planting, and of Gardning. But, my Lord, I pretend by it yet fomefarther fervice to the State than that of. meerly profit, if in contributing to your diver- tifementI provide for the Publickhealth, which isfo pre- cious and neceflary to it in your excellent Perfon. Vouchfafe POMONA your Lord/bips hand to kifs, and the humble Pre/enter ofthefe Papers the honourof being efteem’d, POMONA, Or An Appenpix Concerning FR UIT-TREES; In relation to CIDE R: The Making, and feveral ways of Ordeiing it. My Lord, Your moft humble, and moft ebedient Servant F. EVELYN. THE PREFAGEE, aAt Quercus was the Proverbsand it is nowtime #\ out ofthe Woods into the Fields a little, and to walk Ars AG! to confider aaa , » what Advancement may be there likewife made by tne, a\planting of FRUIT-TREES. For after the ids the ganti Earth is duly cultivated, and pregnant with a Crop of nriind —ae/Grain; itis only by the Furniture offich Trees as tu bear Fruit, that it becomes capable of any farther [mProvement.Ifthen by difcovering how this may beft be effected I can but raife a worthy exzulation inour Country-men; this addition ofnoble Ornament,as well as of Wealth andPleafure,F ood and Wine,wayCZ preSine)obtainfome grateful admittance amongft all Promo ters ofIndufiry, Butbefore I proceed, Tmuft, and do ingennonfl ackno y wledge, that x prefent my Reader here with very little of my own, fave the pains of collecting and digetting a fewdifpers'd Notes (but juch as areto me exceedingly precious) which I have recei u'd; fomefrom worthy, and most experienc'd * Friends of mine; and other s, from the well fur- * Elpe nifh'd Regifters, avd Cimelia of the ROYAL SOCIETY. eee Efpecially, thofe Aphorifins, and Treatifes relat ing to the Hiftoryof jearned pr. Cider, which by expre/s commands they have been pleas'd to injoyn Spade Tae fhould publi fh with my Sylva. ie It is little more than an Age, fince Hops (rather 2 Medical, than’ Alimental Vegetable) tranfmuted our wholefome Ale into Beer; which He cae doubtlefs much alter’d our Conftitutions : That one Ingredient (by POMONA Some not unworthily fufpected) preferving Drin k indeed,andfo by cufloms made agreeable; yet repaying the pleafure with torme nting Difeafes,and a fhorter life, may de ervedly abate our Sondnefs to it 5 efpecially, if with this be confider'd likewife, the cafualties in planting it, as feld om facceeding more than once én three years 5 yet requiring conft ant charge and culture; Befides that it is none of the le aft devourers of youn g Timber. Andwhat if a like care, or indeed one quarter of it, were (for the future) converted to the propagation ofFruit-trees, in all parts of this Nation, as #t is already in fome, for the benefit of Cider? Cone Shire B 4)0ne |