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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    longed in a fouthern climate, for all the old kinds grow bell in warm fi- tuations, and the moft difeafed flou- rifhed with the greateft vigour when I trained them to a fouth wall. This mode of culture will not fuit the cider-maker; but it may probably be adopted with much advantage, when new varieties are -to be obtained from feed ; and the produdlion of thefe muft be the firft thing to engage the attention of the planter of the pre- fent day. A few varieties of the apple are fufficient for the moft extenfive dif- trict, where the foil is of the fame kind, and the fituation equally warm; but