2S4 A TREATISE OF 



I have likewife preferred neftarines by- 

 nailing clofe to the wall a large piece of 

 crape fo as to cov^* a dozen or more that 

 grew near together. 



CHAP. XCVIII. 

 How to gather Summer-Fruits. 



AL L kinds of fummer fruits mufl: 

 be gathered in the morning, or elfe 

 they will eat flat. 



Cherries fhould be full ripe before they 

 are gathered, which may be known by 

 their colour, for the reddeft forts will be 

 changed on the fides next the fun to a very 

 deep colour almoft blacky and thofe of 

 the paler kinds will be quite red on the 

 fun fide. 



In getting them from the trees, their 

 ftalks fhould be nipt off from the branches 

 by the thumb and fore finger 5 for pulling 

 breaks off the buds that might produce 

 branches or bloflbms the next year. 



When plums are ripe they will quit their 

 flalks eafilys if you give them the leaft 

 twift with the fingers 5 but they ought not 



to 



