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].

  • Knight, T. A. (Thomas Andrew), 1759-1838.
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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    ^57 many advantages over the apple for general culture: it will flourilh in a greater variety of foil, is much more productive, and being incapa- ble, in thofe varieties v hich are proper for perry, of being eaten or applied to any culinary purpofe, it is little fubjeCt to be Itolen in fituations where fruits do not abound. As an ornamental tree, it pofleffes fuf- ficient merit to entitle it to a place, where ornament is the principal ob- jeCl: it’s form is often piClurefque-, and it’s bloflbms in the fpring, and fruit in autumn, are always beau- tiful. Every trees when nearly full - grown in moderately good ground, will afford an annual pro- duce