A treatise on the culture of the apple and pear, and on the manufacture of cider and perry. [With a postscript concerning tithes] / [T.A. Knight].

  • Thomas Andrew Knight
Date:
1797
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the culture of the apple and pear, and on the manufacture of cider and perry. [With a postscript concerning tithes] / [T.A. Knight]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that fine ciders might be made in almoft every part of England. Every variety • of the apple is more or lefs afFedfed by the nature of the foil it grows in ; and the excellence of the ciders formerly made from the Red- ftreak and Golden Pippin, and at prefent from the Stire, in light foils, feems to evince that fome fruits re- ceive benefit from thofe qualities in the foil, by which others are injured. On fome foils the fruit attains a large fize, and is very produdlive of juice, on others it is more dry and highly flavoured. Where the juice is abundant, but weak, which fome- times happens in the deep loam of the