Excerpt from The Apple Pear as Vintage Fruits The First Class (cartes Jaunes) consists of excellent Apples, and it gives twenty four varieties. The Apples in this Class contain Sugar, Alcohol, Tannin and Perfume in sufficient quantities to yield a rich, long-keeping Cider Of excellent perfume and flavour; whilst it retains a sufficient amount of unreduced Sugar, to give sweetness, and enough Tannin, to give strengthening virtues, and at the same time to moderate the action of the Alcohol. The Second Class (cartes Blanches) consists of very good Apples, and it gives fifty one varieties. These Apples yield juices with sufficient Sugar, Tannin, and Perfume to make a rich good keeping Cider. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.