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vfe them, they doc walh the feedes or meale from them when they vfe them. Another 

 way is, that hauing gathered the faireft ripe grapes, they are to be cart vpon threds or 

 ftrings that are faftened at both ends to the fide walks of a chamber, neere vnto the fee- 

 ling thereof, that no one bunch touch another, which will bee fo kept a great while, 

 yet the chamber mult be well defended from the frofts, and cold windes that pierce in 

 at the windowes, led they perifh the fooner : and fome will dippe the ends of the 

 branches they hang vp firft in molten pitch, thinking by fearing vp the ends to keepe 

 the bunches the better ; but I doe not fee any great likelihood therein. Your chamber 

 or clofet you appoint out for this purpofe muft alfo bee kept fomewhat warme, but e- 

 fpecially in the more cold and froftie time of the yeare, left it fpoile all your coft and 

 paines, and fruftrate you of all your hopes : but although the frofts mould pierce and 

 fpoile fome of the grapes on a bunch, yet if you be carefull to keepe the place warme, 

 tlu- tcwer will be fpoiled. And thus haue I mewed you the beft directions to order this 

 Orchard rightly, and all the waies I know are vfed in our Countrie to keep grapes good 

 anie long time after the gathering, in regard wee haue not that comfort of a hotter Sun 

 to preferue them by its heate. 



The fruits themfelues mail follow euerie one in their order ; the lower fhrubbes or 

 bumes firft, and the greater afterwards. 



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