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Show Concerning Cider. Concerning Cider. always wor-eater, till their lives were forfeited tothe fire. 35. To take up fromthele Curioftties, the moft ufeful refult to our purpofes; we have always found thefe Orchards to grow beit laft longeft, and bear moft,which are frequentlytilled for Barley, Wheat, or other Corz, and kept (by Calture and feafonable ret) ix, due ftrength to bear a full crop." And therefore, whereas the Red: ftrake might otherwife without much injury be planted at fifteen ot twenty foot diftance, and the beft diftance for other Cider-fruit hath heretofore been reputed thirty,or two and thirty foot; very good husbands do now allow in their largeft Inclojures (asof 20, 4008 100 Acres fifty orfixty foot diftance, that the Trees maynot much hinder the Plow, and yet receive the benefit of Compost 5 anda Horfe-teemwell governed will (without any damage of danger) plow clofe to the Trees. ; 36. In fueh foil as is here required, namely of good Tillage, an Orchard of graffed Red-ftrakes will be of good growth, and good burthen, within tex or twelve years, and branch out with good {tore to begin an encouragement at three years graffing 5 and (except the land be very unkind) will not yield to any decay within fixty or eighty years, which is a mans age, 37- In fome sheets I rendred many Reafons againft Mr. Aufise of Oxford, why we fhould prefer a peculiar Cider fruit, whichin Herefordfhire are generallycalled Mujts ; (fo we nameboththe Ap- ple and the Liquor, and Pulpe as mingled together in the contufion) as fromthe Latine Mufium. White-Mujts of divers kinds, Red: cheek’d and Red-firak'd Musts of feveral kinds, Green- Mufts called alfo Green-fillet, and Blew-fhotted: Why, I fay, we fhould prefer them for Cider, before Table fruit, as Pepizs, Pear mains. Onc, And ft do ftillinfiftonthem: 1. The Liquor of thefe Cider-frxits andof manykinds ofauftere fruit, which are no better thana fort of full fucculent Crabs, is more {prightful, brifk and winy. For Effay, | fent up manybottles to London, that did me no difcredit. Second], One buthel of the Cider fruit yields twice or thrice as much liquor Thirdly, The Tree grows more in three or four years than theother in ten years, as I oft times remarked. Fourthly, The Tree bears fargreater ftore, and doth more generally efcape Blasts and Frosts of the Spring. I might add, that fomeofthefe, and efpe= cially fuch Pears ag yield the beft Perry, will beft efcape the hand of the Thief, and may betrufted in the open field. é 38, E y the firft, Jecond and fourth of thefe Reafons. I muft exclude the Gennet Moyle from a right Cider Jruit, it being dry and Very apt to take frosty blafts s yerit isno Table-fruit, but proper 4 baking truit, asthe ruddy colour from the Ovex fhews. | , 39+ Lialdthat theright Cider-fixit generally called 2 def n ing the Latine name Multum, is of divers kinds s anc need to note mere exprefly that there is a Red-firak’'d Mut l often feen) but not ¢ ly } <nown, thaat is quit 3 ec fr m the famousRed-firake, beit and like fomeof the White Atufi viny liquors could willingly name ich lefg, 13 fomewhat oblc and full of a very good the erfons and place w! the diftiné& kinds are beft known: it was fir fhewed me by Jobk3 Nah of Afhpertonin Herefordfbire ; and for fome years theydid in fome places diftinguifh a Red-s#rake, as yielding a richer Red- firakd Cider of a more f#lvous or ruddy colour 3 but this difference, as far as I could find, is but a choice of a better infolated or ruddy fruit of the beft kind, as taken from the South- part of the Tree,or froma foilthat renders them richer.» But my Lord Seudamore's is fafely of the beft fort ; and M. Whingate of the Grange in Dimoc, and fome of King’'s-capel,do beft knowthefe and other differences, Straked-Muft, right Red-ftrake, Red-Redéirake, &c. 40. The greenith A¢u/?, (formerlycalled in the Language of the Country, the Green-fillet) when the Liquoris of a kindly ripenefs, retains a greevefs equal tothe Rhewifh-glafs ; which I note for them that conceive no Cider tobefit for ufe tillit be of the colour of old Sack, 4%. Todirec little more caxtion, for enquiryof the right Red firake, Ifhouldgivenotice that fome Afoneths ago, M. Philips of j exe in Somerfetbire, fhewed mea veryfair large Red-firake ac by {mell and fight feemed tomeandto another of Hethen with me to be the beft Redftrake; but when we » and tafte it, we both denied it to be right (the other b more.confidence than myfelf) but M. PAilips making of it, this week invited me to it, afluring that alreadyit es orrefembles High-country-wines. It had not fuch plentyof ce as our Ked-firakes with us, and ithad more ofthepleafantels of Table-jrxit, which might be occafioned, for ought I know, by the purer and quicker foil. This Apple is here call’d AseriotYsnot, andgreat {tore of them are at Aeriot, a Villace not far diftant: Px {libly, this Aderiot may prove to be the Re d-Strake of Somerfet-fbire, whenthcy fhall pleafe to try it apart w ith equal di ligence and conftancy asthey doin Hereford-/hire: This fruit is of a very lovely hve, and by fomeconc cive d to beof Affinity to the Red-Ferfey-Apple, which is reported to tinge fo deeply : In truth, there can hardly be a deeper Purple, than is ourright Herefordfhire Red-S#rake, having a fewfireaks towards the Eye, of a dark colour, or Oramge-tawny intermingled: Bur, ‘tis no won- der if an Apple fhould change its Name in travelling fo far beyond the Severz, when even in this Country, moft forts of Apples, and efpecially, Cider-fruit, lofeth the Name in the next Village. hg 42. I may nowask whywe fhouldtalk of other Cider-finit or Perry, ifthe belt Red-firakehave all the aforefaid pre-eminencies ofricher and more wény liquor, byhalf fooner a Orchard, more con(tantly bearing, @e. An Orchard of Red-ftrakes is commonly as full of fruit at tes years, as other Cider-fruit at twenty years, or as the Pepin and Pearmain at thirty or thereabout. 43. Tothis may be Anfwered, that allfoils bear not Apples, and to fome foils other Apples may be more kind, andif webe driven to Perry, much we mayfay b oth in behalf of the Perry, andof the Pears of the fruit, and of the Trees It isthe goodJier Tree for 2Grove, to fheltera houfe a walks from Summers beat and wes |