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POMONA: Or, 
rifhment to Fruits as they advance in Growth, as well as keeping 
them in a fupple ductile State, by defending them from the Sun, 
and drying Winds, which contract and harden their Fibres, or Sap- 
Veffels, and thereby fpoil their Growth. : 
BUT when Fruits are almoft fully grown, a little more Sun is neceflary, 
to ripen their Juices, and give them their beautiful Colours; and 
therefore we muft then by Degrees let in the genial Heat of the 
Sun, which will ripen them in the greateft Perfection that the Seafon 
is capable to produce. 
N. B. THAT ’tis better to tie back the Leaves with Bafs-mat, which 
are before the Fruits, than to cut them away; but if Time will 
not allow it, be fare to preferve thofe at the End of the Shoots, 
that their neceffary Attrattions and Perfpivations may not be req 
tarded, and thereby the Fruits vendev'd. infipid by the. Crudities 
contain'd in them, that fhould have. been », betleee C oe at their 
"excretory Dutts. 
