A treatise on the culture of the apple & pear, and on the manufacture of cider & perry / by T. A. Knight.

  • Knight, T. A. (Thomas Andrew), 1759-1838.
Date:
1801
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the culture of the apple & pear, and on the manufacture of cider & perry / by T. A. Knight. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    this fruit, appears to be confined to a cer- tain period, during the earlier parts of which only, it can be propagated with ad- vantage to the planter. No kind of apple, now cultivated, appears to have existed more than two hundred years; and this term does not at all exceed the duration of a healthy tree, or of an orchard when graft- ed on crab-stocks, and planted in a strong tenacious soil. From the description Par- kinson, who wrote in 1629, has given of the apples cultivated in his time, it is evi- dent that those now known by the same names are different, and probably new varieties; and though many of those men- tioned by Evelyn, who wrote between thirty and forty years later, still remain, they appear no longer to deserve the attention of the planter. The Moil, and its success- ful rival the Redstreak, with the Musts and Golden Pippin, are in the last stage of the