112 THE CULTURE 



berries, if they are in any great quantity, 

 by ihaking the leaves in w'ldz meih'd fieves 

 or fomc iuch way : but if you fpare puUing 

 fuch trees, the berries will give you feed 

 for new plantations ; for if they are flrip- 

 ped of their leaves, the fruit will not ripen 

 well nOr grow large, 



Beiide the foregoing obfervations, the 

 gatlierers muft be cautioned not to bruife 

 the leaves either by pulling them roughly, 

 fqueezing them in their hands, or prefling 

 them into the bafkets ; not to break the 

 branches of the foregoing year, nor mix the 

 fragments of broken branches among the 

 leaves. In fliort, to injure the trees as lit- 

 tle as pofiible, and to pull the leaves with 

 clean hands, and bring them home in as 

 neat a manner as they can. Not that it 

 is abfolutely necelTary to follow minutely 

 every thing which is above mentioned ; 

 but if your conveniency anfwers, you will 

 find them cf advantage. 



Some authors fay that if the leaves are 

 pulled by Gripping them dovvnward, it 

 will difbark and hurt the branches ; but I 

 have found that this is not faft, for they 

 come off by flripping downward much 

 eafier than upward, and without injuring 



the 



