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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    a good apple for cider, and for the defert, are -feldoni found in the lame fruit, though they are not incom- patible with each other. The firm- nefs of the pulp, which is eflential in the eating apple, is ufelefs in the cider fruit, in the beft kinds of which it is often tough, dry, and fibrous; and colour which is juftly difregarded in the former is amongft the firft good qualities of the latter. Some degree of aftringency allb which is injurious to the eating fruit is always advantageous to the other. Amongft the endlefs variety of kinds which are found in Herefordfhire very few ever deferved the attention of