Cucumber?, and like Fruits, to accelerate their ripe- 

 nefs: 1 he joy w beyond the lafl Clufter 01 Gourd, # 

 is the ghee where the Creepers or Shoots are to be 

 nipt on in Vines or Gourds: In other Wall-Fruit 

 the Gardiner clips them at a convenient diihnce from 

 the Wall, to as not to take away all the llirde from the 

 Fruit, which in fome proportion isnecefiary that the 

 Fruit be not dryed up, end burnt upon the Tree by 

 the Torrid heat of the Mid-iummerSun, in fuch pla- 

 ces where his rays are reflected from a W T all or Floor^ 

 or both. 



'Tis alfoobierved that in Wall-Fruit, or any other 

 that requires a reflected hear, in order to the ripen- 

 ing of the Fruit ; the lower the Boughs are fpread,the 

 fooner the Fruit ripens on a Wall : And in Standards, 

 the lower and nearer the Earth any Plant is kept, the 

 better iliall it ripen, by re.ifon of the reflecTion made 

 from the furface of the Earch ;which if be tare from 

 Weeds, is equal to the reflexion from fome Walls. 

 In Fraxfdy Vines have no other reflection but this, be- 

 ing tyed to flakes, and not fi-ffc red to grow above a 

 yard high ; and in many places of Er.gUrd this onely 

 advantage, without Walls, brings Grapes to that ma- 

 turity which is ordinary in our lfland. 



The twilling of the flalks, whereby the Bunches 

 of CJnpcs are joyned to the body of the Vine, done 

 -at fuch time when the Grape is come to its full Big- 

 .nefs, is practiced by fome for the accelerating matu- 

 rity ; and it may be> that by this twilling , the 

 Channels, that might other.\ife carry more crude 

 Sap into the Grape, being broken, the heat of the 

 Sun may more fpeedily reduce that which is already 

 poiTefledbf the Gripe into fweetnefs, then if fovvre 

 and undi gelled Juice were fail fupplyed from the 

 Vine. Re- 



