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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67093	Vinetum Britannicum, or, A treatise of cider and such other wines and drinks that are extracted from all manner of fruits growing in this kingdom together with the method of propogating all sorts of vinous fruit-trees, and a description of the new-invented ingenio, or mill, for the more expeditious and better making of cider : and also, the right method of making metheglin and birch-wine : with copper-plates / by J.W., gent.	Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698.	1676 (1676)	Wing W3608; ESTC R7164	81,142	225

is to say under the age of a year or be set into a new fermentation by the addition of new Wine or Stum it purges and puts the blood into a fermentation that it indangers the health of him that drinks it and sometimes his life If it be old Wine which is commonly the best then the Vintners cunning in preserving it and making it palatable by his secret and concealed Mixtures renders it dangerous to be drank either fasting or in great quantity many having died suddenly meerly by drinking of such Wine For there is no Drink more homogeneal to the bloud than Wine the Spirit thereof being the best Vehicle of any Medicine to the most remote parts that the bloud circulates in therefore if any evil mixture be in it the more it operates and is soonest conveyed to the heart and all other parts of the body It is recorded by Pliny That Androcydes a noble sage and wise Philosopher wrote unto Alexander the Great to correct and reform his intemperate drinking of Wine whereto he was very prone and in his fits of Drunkenness very rude the immoderate drinking whereof is by him affirmed to be very dangerous and pernicious As for Cider that we have had the long and constant experience of the making of it and preserving it for several years in its true and genuine taste Cider of two and three years old being not unusual in the Cider-Countries the late Lord Scudamore having had a Repository on purpose to preserve it in at his Seat in Herefordshire and that without any Sophistication or Adulteration but by the onely Art of right preparing and ordering of it The constant use of this Liquor either simple or diluted hath been found by long experience to avail much to health and long life preserving the Drinkers of it in their full strength and vigour even to very old Age witness that famous History in my Lord Bacon's History of Life and Death of eight men that but a little before his time danced a Morris-dance whose Age computed together made eight hundred years for what some wanted of one hundred years others exceeded These were reported to be Tenants of one Mannour belonging to the Earl of Essex at that time and to be constant Cider-drinkers And divers other Presidents of the like nature Herefordshire Gloucestershire c. can furnish you withal If it be new and unfermented it prejudiceth not the Drinker nor if it be old so that it's unpleasantness forbids you not to drink it but for its unpleasantness sake It s agreeing with our natures adds much to its Salubrity because of its innocency it yielding also a good Spirit which may probably prove a Vehicle answerable to that of other Wine At least it may make a very good Brandy which when the Fruit is grown more common in plentiful years may be experimented and improved Although there is no Liquor Drink nor More Pleasant Diet alike pleasant to all some preferring that dull Coffee before any other Drink whatsoever some stale Beer others fat Ale Mum one Claret another Sack before any other Drinks Yet is there not any Drink known to us so generally Palatable as Cider for you may make it sute almost with any humourous Drinker It may be made luscious by addition of a good quantity of sweet Apples in the first operation pleasant being made with Pippins or Gennet-Moyles onely racy poignant oyly spicy with the Redstreak and several other sorts of Fruits even as the Operator pleases And it satisfies thirst if not too stale more than any other usual Drink whatsoever But that which most tempts the Rustick More Profitable to the Propagation of this Fruit for the making of this Liquor is the facile and cheap way of the raising and preparing of it for in such years that Corn is dear the best Cider may be made at a far easier rate than ordinary Ale the thoughts whereof add much to the exhilerating vertue of this Drink and I hope will be a good inducement to the farther improvement of it Next unto Cider Perry claims the precedency ●●●ry especially if made of the best juicy Pears celebrated for that purpose The Wines or Drinks made of Plums Juices of other Fruits Cherries Currants Gooseberries Rasberries yea and of our English Grape may be so prepared that they may be more acceptable to our Palates and more healthy pleasant and profitable than those forreign Wines many are so fond of CHAP. IV. Of the best and most expeditious ways of Propagating the several sorts of Fruit-trees for the said uses SECT I. Of Propagating the Apple-tree THere is no Fruit-tree in this whole Isle of Great Britain that is so universal as the Apple-tree there being but few places and but little land wherein it delighteth not hardly any place so cold or moist hot or dry but it will thrive and bear Fruit. Neither is there any Fruit-tree more easily Propagated nor any that bears so great a burthen of Fruit as this doth Therefore is the planting and increasing of them more to be encouraged and promoted than of any other considering also the excellency of the Liquor extracted from its Fruit. For the Propagating whereof the first thing to be considered is the nature and position of the land wherein it is to be planted Although this Isle be stiled the Queen of Isles for its temperature of Air fertility of Soil c. that we may truely say of her as Rapinus of France Though to all Plants each Soil is not dispos'd And on some places Nature has impos'd Peculiar Laws which she unchang'd preserves Such servile Laws Great Britain searce observes She 's fertile to excess most Fruits she bears And willingly repays the Plowman's cares Yet is there required some Judgement Adapting Fruits to the Soil from the Husbandman in placing each Tree or Plant in the proper Soil it most delights in or in adapting Plants to the nature of each Soil you have to plant for Trees will strangely prosper in ground that they like comparatively to what they will do if they are planted in ground wherein they delight not Virgil was of the same opinion when he sang Nec verò terrae ferre omnes omnia possunt c. All grounds not all things bear the Alder-tree Grows in thick Fens with Sallows Brooks agree Ash craggy Mountains Shores sweet Myrtle fills And lastly Bacchus loves the Sunny Hills The Apple it self which is but one kinde of Fruit yet are there several sorts of them that delight in some places and will not thrive in another which made the Kentish-men so addict themselves to the planting of the Pippin and Codlin because no other Apple would prosper so well in that County which gave them the names of Kentish-Pippin and Codlin when in some other places neither of those Fruits will prosper without Art but are destroyed by that pernicious Disease the Canker The Redstreak also is observed to prosper better and yield a better