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an old ftanding. The Golden Pipin, how- 

 ever, is going oft*; " it cankers and will not 

 take ;" fo that the identity of the Redftreak. 

 may be doubted. See above, page 221. 



In the gathering of fruit, there is nothing 

 either excellent or peculiar ; except in the 

 circumftance of fruit being gathered wet or 

 dry : a circumftance wliich may have arifea 

 out of the moiftnefs of the climate, and out 

 of the clofenefs and rough woody ftate of 

 the orchards ; in which, it were next to 

 impoflible, to colled dry fruit; unlefs in a 

 remarkably dry feafon. 



The maturation of the fruit, in the ordi- 

 nary practice of the Diftridt, is carried on 

 in large heaps, in the open air, or in the 

 pound houfe, or other covered fituation * ; 

 where they remain, until they be fufticiently 

 *'come ;" that is, until the brown rot has 

 begun to take place. 



3. Breaking. Formerly, this ope- 



0^2 ration 



* . • 



* Preparing a flooring of rough ftonesj as mentioned 

 above, is very judicious, when apples are matured in the 

 open air ; not only as keeping the bafe of the heap drj ; 

 but as communicating, perhaps, a fupply of air, to the 

 lower and central parts of the heap. 



