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A Brief History of Cider Claire Preston. Genet Moyle and Redstrake/Redstreak, aka Scudamour Crab. Adam and Eve (Lucas Cranach ). peri = a class of plants including apples and pears mālum = ‘melon’ (latterly the modern botanical genus of the apple) malum = ‘evil’.
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Adam and Eve (Lucas Cranach) peri= a class of plants including apples and pears mālum = ‘melon’ (latterly the modern botanical genus of the apple) malum = ‘evil’
‘The memorie of that delicious place was not yet so far obliterated, but that our Forefathers’ early attempts sufficiently discover’d how unhappily they were to live without a Garden... and Men began, with the indulgence of Heaven, to recover that by Arduous Industrie, which was before produced to them Spontaneously. We all came out of this Parsly Bed.’ John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum (1650-1700)
A society of Paradisi Cultores, persons of antient simplicity, paradisean and hortulan saints, to be a society of ingenuous and learned men, by whom we might hope to redeeme the tyme that hath bin lost in pursuing, and still propagating, vulgar errours. John Evelyn to Thomas Browne, 28 January, 1660
John Beale on cider culture (1662) Nothing shall so much honor and oblige ye people and posterity, as a generall regard to ye advantages of ye right plantation of orchards, for ye general use of such liquor as may there be raised. And I am seriously persuaded that it is an improvement answerable to ye great expectations of this wonderfull age, and worthy ye speciall cognisance of the Royal Society. I am askt, whether I mean to turn all England into Orchards. And to say truth, Herefordshire is become an orchard of 20 miles square, and gives our Sparks such a relish of Cider.
Bran Rose Oblong Liffee :Tender Chestnut: Carmagnolles Munn's RedOrgeran: Red Short-Start: Great Cushion Apple Old BromleyPassepommes or Honeymeal White: Camoise: Round Cushion Apple Cherry Norman Pommasses: Cliquet or Rattle-Apple: Red Fenouill: Long Cushion AppleCherry Pym SquareReinette or Pippin: Scarlet Apple: Red Short-StartCowarne RedWhite Hasty: Dewy Apple: Snow Apple :Our Ladies Apple: White Rambourg: Cleer Calvil: Red Rambourg Pearmain Royal: White Calvil: May-Flower Red NormanLarge Red of September Coccagee Vermillion: Russet Short-Start Red RoyalSoft Red: Danquelles: Great-Ey’d Apple Cwmmy St John: Red Calvil: Magdalene Red SplashJayet: Great Belly’d Woman: White Fenouill Red-streakJudea: Hurluva: Coquere:t Hard Short-Start Dymock Red Malingres or Maligar: Douettes: Bretagne Cloth of Gold: Stranger Eggleton Styre Nattranges: High-Good Skyrme's KernelPigeonnet Royal WildingClustered Apple: White Apple of Bretagne: Forest Styre winter Passepomme: Red Apple of Bretagne: Citron Apple FoxwhelpRose Apple: Camuese or Flat-Snout: Minion: Raeslee South Quoining Robillard: Winter Chestnut: Lugelles GarterMarch Violet: Cardina:l Jacob Apple Strawberry NormanPear-Apple: Iron AppleGennet Moyle Vignancourt: Icy White Apple: Single Short-Start Tanner's RedReinet of Auvergne Green Wilding Pippin of Mascons Hagloe Crab Grey Reinet: Great White AppleWilding Bitter-sweetHealth White NormanApioles: Apple without Blossom Handsome Norman Winter Reed: Little-Good: Apple of Hell or Black AppleWhite Must Seigneur: Babichet: Spicing: Giradottes Kingston Black Frozen Apple: Great and Small Apis or Appius ClaudiusWhite StyreParsly Apple: Flat Reinet: Raspis 17th-century apple species (Herefordshire species in RED)
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We were present & stoode by when thou, and thy wife, did both of you, transgresse the Command of our Creator ... which we never yet did, nor ever shall; though we are much inferior to mankind. Ralph Austen, A Dialogue between a Husbandman and his Fruit Trees (1676)
Wouldst thou, thy Vats with gen’rous Juice should froth? Respect thy Orchats; think not that the Trees Spontaneous will produce an wholsom Draught. Let Art correct thy Breed; from Parent Bough A Cyon meetly sever; after, force A way into the Crabstock’s close-wrought Grain By wedges, and within the living Wound Enclose the foster twig; nor over-nice Refuse with thy own hands around to spread The binding clay: e’er long their differing veins Unite, and kindly nourishment convey To the new pupil; now he shoots his arms With quickest growth; now shake the teeming trunck, Down rain th’impurpled balls, ambrosial fruit. John Phillips, Cyder (1707)