POMONA:

Or, An A P P E N D I X concerning

fruit-trees,

In Relation to

CIDER,

The Making, and several ways of Ordering it;

The PREFACE.

5 A T Qnercus was the Proverb; and it is now time to walk »aa® out of the Woods into the Fields a little , and to consider'what Advancement may be there likewise made by the dlio , ad eJg _planting of FRUIT-TREES, For after the gamj^mEarth Is duly cultivated, and frtgnant with a Crop of “X.Grain j it is only by the Furniture of such Trees as bear Fruit, that itbecomes c as able of any farther Improvement. If then by discoveringbow this may best be effected, I can but raise a worthy Emulation in°»r Countrymen: this addition of noble Ornament, as well as ofhealth and Pleasure, Food and Wine, may (I presume ) obtain somegrateful admittance amongst all Tromoters of Hortulan Industry.

> But before I proceed , I must, and do ingenuousty acknowledge, that _

1 Present my Reader here with very little of my own, save the Toms Especially°f collecting and digesting a few differs '/Notes {but such as areto SiSdy%e exceedingly precious) which I have receiv'd ; some from wortpy, learned Dr.Ji most eSperiem'd * Friends of mine^ andot^frmthewtf^l^ffrnijb'd Registers, aud Qimeha of the R O Y A T S O G I E T »

r/Pmally, those Aphorisms, and Trestife rehtmg to Of HistoryGicier, which by exfrefs Commands they.bqve been f leafed to enjoin I Soc i et y.should fublijh with my Silya. ^

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