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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    the vallies, dry rich fruits, which are eminent for producing ftrong ci- ders, lliould alone be chofen : and when the afpeft is unfavourable, or the fituation cold and expoled, it feems fufficiently evident, that all fruits, which do not attain an early maturity, fhould be excluded. On fome gravelly foils I have obferved the fruit on the fame tree to ripen very irregularly, and the cider to be (probably in part from this caufe) harfli and rough : thefe defects would, I have no doubt, be removed by planting fuch fruits only as be- come ripe rather early in the feafon, and which are at the fame time ca- pable