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good garden, or produce good fruits, there is 

 something very nice in gathering them, and 

 choosing the best, even from the same tree. 

 The best sorts of all among us, which I esteem 

 the white figs and the soft peaches, will not 

 carry without suffering. The best fruit that is 

 bought has no more of the master's care than 

 how to raise the greatest gains ; his business is 

 to have as much fruit as he can upon a few 

 trees ; whereas the way to have it excellent is 

 to have but little upon many trees. So that for 

 all things out of a garden, either of salads or 

 fruits, a poor man will eat better, that has one 

 of his own, than a rich man that has none. And 

 this is all I think of necessary and useful to be 

 known upon this subject. 



