184 FRUIT TREES. 



eight hours it is taken out of the press and salted, the 

 cheese is placed on a board, and an handfull of salt is 

 rubbed all over it, and the edge? are pared off if necessa- 

 ry ; another handfull of salt is strewed on the upper 

 side, and as much left as will stick to it ; afterwards it 

 is turned into the bare vat without a cloth, and an equal 

 quantity of salt is added to it, and the cheese is return- 

 ed into the press ; where it continues one night, and the 

 next morning it is turned in the vat and continues till 

 the succeeding morning, and is taken out and placed on 

 the dairy shelf; where they are turned every day or 

 every other day, as the weather may be. If it is hot 

 and dry, the windows and door are kept shut, but if 

 wet or moist, the door and windows are kept open night 

 and day. 



FRUIT TREES 



There is probably no part of rural economy, observes 

 Mr. Coxe^ which combines in so great a degree the 

 agreeable occupation of the mind with active employ- 

 ment, as the cultivation of fruit trees, with the other 

 branches of an extensive orchard establishment : to the 

 man of wealth and leisure, it offers the means of im- 

 proving and adorning his estate ; the scientific cultivator 

 will find in it inexhaustible sources of intellectual occu- 

 pation ; while the practical farmer, whose views are 

 limited to objects of certain profit, will be amply remu- 

 nerated for every expenditure of labour or money, by 

 the immediate comfort, and eventual emolument, which 

 will be derived from such an establishment. 



As nothing, says Mr. Robbins, is more delicious, so 

 nothing is more wholesome, than well ripened fruit. It 

 is its deliciousnei.3 that makes its danger. It tempts to 

 excess in eating, and to eating it, unripe. But taken in 

 moderation, it is as wholesome to the constitution, as it is 

 delicious to the palate. Fruit seems to be the favourite food 

 of nature. All animals devour it with eagerness. There 

 is no luxury of the unadulterated palate so much covet- 

 ed ; and in places where nature has denied the produc- 

 tion, no cost in forcing it is considered too great. Be- 

 sides the unfailing market, that may be expected for the 

 fruit, there is the farm, where so much is wanted for 

 family consumption, where it contributes so m.uch to 



