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of common ‘Pears, and in hotter Countries; but from good Cellars I havetasted a very brisk lively and winy Liquor ot these Horse-Tearsd uringthe end of Summery and a Bosbury-Tear I have named and often try-ed, which without bottling, in common Hogsheads of vulgar and i n>different Cellars , proves as well plealanter as richer the second Year,and yet also better the third Year. A very honest , worthy and wittyGentleman of that Neighbourhood would engage to me, that in goodCellars, and in careful custody, it paffeth any account of decay, anctmay be heightned to a kind of Aqua-vitæ. I take the Informationworthy the Stile of our modern Improvements.

The Tear-Tree grows in common Fields and wild stony Ground , tothe largeness of bearing one, two, three or four Hogjheads each Year.

45. This Bosbury-tree , and such generally that bear the most lasting

Liquor and winy , is of such insufferable taste, that hungry Swine wnnot smell to it; or if Hunger tempt them to taste, at first crulh theyshake it out of their Months ; (I lay not this of the Horse-Tcar)the Clowns call other Tears , of best Liquor, Choak-Tears, and w>offer Money to lueh as dare adventure to taste them, for their 7 ?^’and their Mouths will be more ft up if ed than at the root ofrobin. ^

46. A row of Crab-Trees will give an Improvement to any kind 0Terry ; and since Tears and Crabs may be of as many kinds as th cr ^are Kernels , or different kinds or mixtures of Soils ; in a general "raBer I would prefer the largest and fullest of all austere Juices. ^

47. Mr. Lill of Mark-hill ( aged about ninety Years) everoblerV ^this Rule, to graff no wild Tear-Tree till he law the Fruit j il & Pj.° eved large, juicy , and brisk, it failed not of good Liquor. But I ^cause to lay, that to graff a young Tree with a riper Graffs and kftt wExcellency, is a sure Gain, and hastens the return.

48. Mr. Speke ( last High-Sheriff of Somersetjhire ) shewed uW'

his Tark some store of Crab-Trees , of such huge Bulk, that in^fertile Year he offered a IVager, that they would yield one or twoJheads of Liquor each of them; yet were they small dry Crabs . .

4p. I have leen several forts of Crabs (which are the naturalor at worst but the Wild-Apple') which are as large as many l°d sApples , and the Liquor winy. ^

50. I have disclaimed the Guft of Juniper-berries in Cider ; J ^ cit only once for my self and drank it before Christmas: Possibly i n P* 1time the Relish had been lubdu’d or improv’d, as of Hops in "Beer , and of Rennet in good Tarmasan. Neither was the Guft t0 ^ iaotherwise unpleasant than as Annis-seeds in Bread , rather fi ran & e £ fft-odious ; and by custom made grateful; and it did hasten the Cist’son, and increase the Briskness to an endlels sparkling'■ Thus ss ageth the Lungs, and nothing more cheap ; where Juniper* S r0 ' 'Girl may lpeedily fill her Lap with the Berries. p sC -

If Barbadoes Ginger be good, cheaper, and a more pleasant ^server of Beer, it must probably be most kind for Cider : F 01 ’of all the Improvers that I could name, bruised Mustard w' aS ,^ abest • and this Ginger hath the lame quick mendicant Vigor ,

more noble and more Aromatic Fragrancy. Secondly, Ctde ^ ^I oft complain ) is of a sluggish and somewhat windy naturefor seme Months the best; of it is chain’d up with a cold hg a \ , lS