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John Evelyn's French Gardener g{ves much informa- tion on this subject, and his Pomona is, says Stopes, the first monograph on the manufacture of cider in England. Cider is made in many parts of Barbafy, and in Canada. In all the States, apples are abundant, particularly in New York and New England, and cider is a common drink of the inhabitants. And it is as excellent as it is common. That of New Jersey is generally considered the best It is curious that the least juicy apples afford the best liquor. Cider of a superior quality is abundant in Cork, Waterford, and other counties of Ireland, where it was introduced, we are told, in the reign of Elizabeth. It was first made at Affane, in the county of Waterford.^ Worledge's Vtnetum Britannicum, 1676, and his Most Easy Method for Making the Best Cider, 1687, have been considered at full length by Mr. Stopes. Worledge's press is an improvement upon one shown in Evelyn's Pomona, Cider appears in Russia under the name of Kvas. There is Yablochni kvas, made of apples; Grushevoi kvas, of pears, a perry; and Malinovoi kvas, of rasp- George Turberville, secretary to the Eng- lish Embassy to Moscow in the year 1568, mentions kvas in a description of the Russians of his time as : " Folk fit to be of Bacchus' train, so quaffing is their kind ; Drink is their whole desire, the pot is all their pride. berries.

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