f6B OF FRUITS. SECT. XVII. 



room, on clean dry, mofs, or fwcet dry ftraw, fo as 

 not to touch one another. Some, or all the reft, may 

 be ftored as directed tor apples : for thev wiH thus keep 

 very well, having firft laid a fortnight fmgly, and then 

 nicely culled. But the mod fuperior way is, to pack 

 in large earthen, or China jars, with very dry long 

 mofs at the bottom, fides, and alfo between them, if it 

 might be. Prefs a coat of mofs on the top, and then 

 flop the mouth chfe with cork, or otherwife, which 

 mould be refined over, with about a twentieth part of 

 bees-iuax in it. As the object is effectually to keep out 

 air, (the caufe of putrefaction) the jars, if earthen, 

 may be fet on diy /and, which put alfo between, ro .nd, 

 and over them, to a foot thick on the top. In all 

 clofe ftoring, obferve, there fhould be no doubt or the 

 foundnefs of the fruit. Guard in time hom froft thofe 

 that lie open. Jars of fruit mnft be foon ufed after 

 unfeahng. See pages 31, 37, 44, 71, 74, S2, 89, 90, 

 95, &c. 103, 153, 160. 



Plum, of the many forts the following are good: 

 Green and blue gage, Foiberingham, zvhite and blue pcr- 

 drigon, drop d'or, la roche Corbon, la royal, and St. Co* 

 iharine. The imperial, or red magnum Ionian, andzc/>//£ 

 magnum honum, are chiefly ufed in tarts, and tor fweeu 

 meats, as is the WenUvorth. The rarly white primor- 

 dian (not a choice truit) is valuable for its coining in 

 the beginning of July ; and the imperairice tor not 

 coming in till Oclober. Dam/on and bullace plum, black 

 and white, very late in the feafon, for tarts, and a fine 

 acid preferve. See pages 51, 37, 71, 74, &«, 90, 103, 

 15 H, and 160. 



Quinck, we have the cerumen apple, and pear Jhaped, 

 and Portugal pear Jhaped^ This fruit cannot be eat 

 raw, but Tor murnieiade, and baked in pies, Sec. the 

 houlewife finds it ufeful. The Portugal is moftly 

 cfleemed. Quinces may hang till N:ve?nber. The 

 npe ones only are of value, which after fweating a few- 

 days, 



