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In Sum, the Red-flrake will at three Years graffing give you burHopes, and last almost an hundred Years; if from sundry Mens Ex-perience of more than Sixty Years, we may divine, and that it agreeSee c. Tay- with the Soil. And the Gennet-Moyles hasten to an Orchard forlor ’/pif ourfs Cider, without Trouble of Art or Graffing : But Note, that thi»cider. 'jgygg j s very apt to contract: a Bur-knot near its'Trunic, where it be-gins to divide ; and being cut off under that Boss, commonly g imVS( if lo set) and becomes speedily a Tree', except it encounter an ex-traordinary dry Summer the first Year to give it Check. And thoughthe Knack of graffing be lo obvious, yet this more appearing Faci-lity does please the lazy Clowns, that in lome places they neither havenor desire any other Orchards ; and how this Humour prevails, y 0 ^may perceive by the hasty Progress of our Kentijh Codlin in ur oiParts of England. But this hasty Growth and Maturity of theis: by another Instance confirm’d to us from that worthy GentledMr. Blount of Orleton, who writes me word, that some of the re-jected Spray, or Prunings of the Gennet-Moyle, taken by Chance t°

'rice a Plot of Tease, (though stuck into the Earth but at Aprd)put forth Root, grew, blossom’d, and bore Apples the lame Year.

But to advance again our Red-strake, even above the Tippiu, anthe rest ( besides the celerity of the Improvement and constantthen ) consider we the most incredible Product, since we may eX P cfrom each Apple more than double the Quantity ; Ib as in theOrchard, under the fame Culture, thirty Red-strake Trees shall at teYears graffing yield more Cider than a hundred of thole Tips nS '.and surmount them in PropOrtion during their Period at least y x ^or seventy Years: 80 that granting the Cider of the Golden Trfs^should excel, ( which with some is precarious )' yet 'tis in no wise P r< jfper for a Cider-Orchard , according to our general Design, not by ,so soon bearing, nor so constantly, nor in that Quantity, nor Fur 1 S^or Security ; for as ’tis no tall Tree, lo is it lels expos’d to Blast S ^the like lnconveniencies; besides it is a good Kitchin-fruit for the deIon it continues.

Concerning Terry , the Horse-Tear, and Bear-land Tear are &puted of the best, as bearing almost their Weight of ipriteful and ^nous Liquor. The experienced prefer the tawny or ruddy Sort, asColour of all other most proper for Terry: They will grow in coru^Fields, gravelly, wild and stony Ground, to that largenels as ° neTree has been usually known to make three or four Hogsheads •' yof Bosberry, and some others, are so tart and harlh, that there * S ^thing more safe from Plunder, when even a Swine will not takein his Mouth. But thus likewise would the Abundance preserve tFruits, as we see it does in Normandy. ^ ee

Some have reckon’d the Codlin among the Cider-fruits ; it b abf Consort, propagated by Cuttings , improv’d by Graffing, contl ° a or eto Cons espalier es or Hedges, but more plentifully bearing when 01at Liberty.

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