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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38807	Pomona, or, An appendix concerning fruit-trees in relation to cider the making and several ways of ordering it.	Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1670 (1670)	Wing E3509; ESTC R23741	59,491	72

POMONA OR AN APPENDIX CONCERNING FRUIT-TREES In relation to CIDER The Making and several ways of Ordering it VIRG. Eclog. ix Carpent tua Poma nepotes LONDON Printed by Iohn Martyn and Iames Allestry Printers to the Royal Society MDCLXX To the Right Honourable THOMAS Earl of SOVTHAMPTON Lord HIGH TREASURER OF ENGLAND c. My Lord IF great Examples did not support it the dignity and greatness of your Person would soon have given cheque to this presumption But since Emperours and Kings have not only gratefully accepted Works of this nature but honor'd them likewise with their own sacred hands that Name of yours which ought indeed never to appear but on Instruments of State and fronts of Marble consecrating your Wisdom and Vertues to Eternity will be no way lessen'd by giving Patronage to these appendant Rusticities It is from the Protection and Cherishment of such as your Lordship is that these Endeavours of ours may hope one day to succeed and be prosperous The noblest and most useful Structures have laid their Foundations in the Earth if that prove firm here and firm I pronounce it to be if your Lordship favour it We shall go on and flourish I speak now in relation to the Royal Society not my self who am but a Servant of it only and a Pioner in the Works But be its fate what it will Your Lordship who is a Builder and a lover of all Magnificences cannot be displeas'd at these agreeable Accessories of Planting and of Gard'ning But my Lord I pretend by it yet some farther service to the State than that of meerly profit if in contributing to your divertisement I provide for the Publick health which is so precious and necessary to it in your excellent Person Vouchsafe POMONA your Lordships hand to kiss and the humble Presenter of these Papers the honour of being esteem'd My Lord Your most humble and most obedient Servant I. EVELYN POMONA Or An APPENDIX Concerning FRUIT-TREES In relation to CIDER The Making and several ways of Ordering it THE PREFACE SAt Quercus was the Proverb 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in eos qui relicto victu sordido ad elegantiorem lautiorémque digrediuntur and it is now time to walk out of the Woods into the Fields a little and to consider what Advancement may be there likewise made by the planting of FRUIT-TREES For after the Earth is duly cultivated and pregnant with a Crop of Grain it is only by the Furniture of such Trees as bear Fruit that it becomes capable of any farther Improvement If then by discovering how this may best be effected I can but raise a worthy emulation in our Country-men this addition of noble Ornament as well as of Wealth and Pleasure Food and Wine may I presume obtain some grateful admittance amongst all Promoters of Industry But before I proceed I must and do ingenuously acknowledge that I present my Reader here with very little of my own save the pains of collecting and digesting a few dispers'd Notes but such as are to me exceedingly precious which I have receiv'd some from worthy and most experienc'd * Especially from the most excellently learned Dr. Beale of Teavil in Somerset-shire a Member of the Royal Society Friends of mine and others from the well-furnish'd Registers and Cimelia of the ROYAL SOCIETY Especially those Aphorisms and Treatises relating to the History of Cider which by express commands they have been pleas'd to injoyn I should publish with my Sylva It is little more than an Age since Hops rather a Medical than Alimental Vegetable transmuted our wholesome Ale into Beer which doubtless much alter'd our Constitutions That one Ingredient by some not unworthily suspected preserving Drink indeed and so by custom made agreeable yet repaying the pleasure with tormenting Diseases and a shorter life may deservedly abate our fondness to it especially if with this be consider'd likewise the casualties in planting it as seldom succeeding more than once in three years yet requiring constant charge and culture Besides that it is none of the least devourers of young Timber And what if a like care or indeed one quarter of it were for the future converted to the propagation of Fruit-trees in all parts of this Nation as it is already in some for the benefit of Cider one Shire alone within twenty miles compass making no less yearly than Fifty thousand Hogsheads the commutation would I perswade my self rob us of no great Advantage but present us with one of the most delicious and wholesom Beverages in the World It was by the plain Industry of one Harris a Fruiterer to King Henry the Eighth that the Fields and Environs of about thirty Towns in Kent only were planted with Fruit to the universal benefit and general Improvement of that County to this day as by the noble example of my Lord Scudamor and of some other publick-spirited Gentlemen in those parts all Herefordshire is become in a manner but one intire Orchard And when his Majesty shall once be pleas'd to command the Planting but of some Acres for the best Cider-fruit at every of his Royal Mansions amongst other of his most laudable Magnificences Noblemen wealthy Purchasers and Citizens will doubtless follow the Example till the preference of Cider wholesom and more natural Drinks do quite vanquish Hopps and banish all other Drogues of that nature But this Improvement say some would be generally obstructed by the Tenant and High-shoon-men who are all for the present profit their expectations seldom holding out above a year or two at most To this 't is answer'd That therefore should the Lord of the Mannour not only encourage the Work by his own Example and by the Applause of such Tenants as can be courted to delight in these kinds of Improvements but should also oblige them by Covenants to plant certain Proportions of them and to preserve them being planted To fortifie this profitable Design It were farther to be desir'd that if already there be not effectual provision for it which wants only due execution and quickning an Act of Parliament might be procur'd for the Setting but of two or three Trees in every Acre of Land that shall hereafter be enclosed under the Forfeiture of Six-pence per Tree for some publick and charitable Work to be levy'd on the Defaulters To what an innumerable multitude would this in few years insensibly mount affording infinite proportions and variety of Fruit throughout the Nation which now takes a Potion for a refreshment and drinks its very Bread-corn I have seen a Calculation of twenty Fruit-trees to every Five pounds of yearly Rent forty to Ten sixty to Fifteen eighty to Twenty and so according to the proportion Had all our Commons and Waste-lands one Fruit-tree but at every hundred foot distance planted and fenc'd at the publick charge for the benefit of the Poor whatever might dy and miscarry enough would escape able to maintain a Stock which would afford them a most