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early white primordian, (not a choice fruit) is valu- 

 able for its coming in the beginning of July ; and 

 the imperatrice for not coming in till October. 

 Damson and bullace plum, black and white, very late 

 ia the season, for tarts, and a fine acid preserve. 

 See pages 31, 38, 74, 77, 86, 94, 95, 107, 1<J8, 

 and 169. See Pishamin, 320. 



QUINCE, we have the common apple, and pear 

 shaped, and Portugal pear shaped. This fruit can- 

 not be eat raw, bat for marmalade, and a little in 

 apple pies, &c. the housewise finds useful. The 

 Portugal is mostly esteemed. Quinces may hang 

 till November ; ripe ones only are of value, which 

 after sweating a few days, must be laid singly (at 

 some distance from one another) on a shelf. See 

 pages 38, 78, 109. 



RASPBERRY, the kinds are red and white, and of 

 each a twice bearing sort, i. e. producing fruit in 

 summer and autumn. Of the red there is a prickly 

 wooded sort, and a smooth one called the cane, and 

 sometimes the reed raspberry ; and the large An- 

 twerp, of a yellow white, sometimes called the Mid- 

 diet on Rasp. 



Gather this fruit carefully, and not long before 

 wanted ; lay no great quantity together. Raspberries 

 presently lose their flavour, and tend to decay. See 

 pages 38, 58, 80, 112, 174. 



SERVICE, (sweet) or sorb apple, is rarely culti- 

 vated for fruit, as it requires a wanner climate than 

 England to ripen it : In fact, it never ripens on the 

 tree. It is gathered late in autumn, in a very austere 

 state, and laid by on wheat straw to decay, when in 

 about a month it becomes agreeable to eat. The 

 trees are hardy, and the curious often plant them, 

 merely for the singularity of their leaves and fruit. 

 This tree is sometimes trained on a wall, or espalier, 



