Sept.] The Fruit Garden. 427 



fpring ufe, the former for foups, and both of them alfo 

 for fallads. See Auguft. 



Gather ripe Seeds, 



Gather feeds In dry weather, of fuch plants as now 

 ripen, fuch as lettuce, leeks, onions, cauliflowers, &c. 

 which you muft well attend to in thefe kinds parti- 

 cularly, according as they acquire maturity, and before 

 attacked by the autumnal rains or mill-dew. 



Th£ Fruit Garden, 



Peaches, l^c» 



GO over your peaches, ne£larines, and other wall- 

 trees, and fee that all the branches keep firm in 

 their proper places ; if any be Icofe, or projefl from the 

 wall, let them be faftened up in their due poiition. 



This prevents their being broken by winds ; and 

 when the whole lays clofe and regular to the wall, then 

 all the fruit can equally enjoy the benefit of the fun to 

 ripen it; and it alfo appears decent and agreeable to 

 the eye. ^ 



Where any of the ripening fruit are too much covered 

 with the leaves, let fome be difplaced ; for if thefe fruits 

 are too much fhaded, theywill not ripen freely with a 

 full flavour. 



Some fliade is requifite and ferviceable to all fruit, but 

 when too much is fuffercd it is a difadvantage ; and, in 

 ^that cafe, no fruit will attain its natural tafte and colour. 



But the removing of leaves is only to be pradifed where 

 they are uncommonly thick, and darken the fruit much; 

 and, in that cafe, they are only to be thinned regularly, 

 ftill preferving a flight covering of leaves over the fruit. 



twines. 



Look over your vines again, to fee that the grapes en- 

 joy the necefl^ary advantage of fun and air^ to promote 

 their ripening. * - 



Where the bunches are too much fliaded, let fome of 

 the leaves be taken off; and where any of the bunches 



are 



