BOOKOFOLD-WORLDGARDENS 



The that all men eat fruit that can get it ; so as the 

 cn i ce IS > on ty whether one will eat good or ill; 

 fruits and between these the difference is not greater 

 in point of taste and delicacy, than it is of health : 

 for the first, I will only say, that whoever has 

 used to eat good, will do very great penance 

 when hecomes to ill: and forthe other, I think 

 nothing is more evident, than as ill or unripe 

 fruit is extremely unwholesome, and causes so 

 many untimely deaths, or so much sickness 

 aboutautumn, in all great cities where 'tisgreed- 

 ily sold as well as eaten; so no part of diet, in 

 any season, is so healthful, so natural, and so 

 agreeable to the stomach, as good and well- 

 ripened fruits; for this I make the measure of 

 their being good; and let the kinds be what they 

 will,if they will not ripen perfectly in our climate, 

 they are better never planted, or never eaten. 

 I can say it for myself at least, and all my friends, 

 that the season of summer fruits is ever the sea- 

 son of health with us, which I reckon from the 

 beginningof June to the end of September, and 

 for all sicknesses of the stomach (from which 

 most others are judged to proceed) I do not 

 think any that are like me, the most subject to 

 them, shall complain, whenever they eat thirty 



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