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with Wax, hang them fingly in a warm Room, which will preferve 
them a long while: Bur the very beft Method that I could ever difcover, 
was to gather them when nearly ripe, in a very dry Day, clofing up the 
Orifices of their Stalks with Wax; and then after having hung about the 
Space of one Day, to perfpire away what Crudities they had in their 
Juices, I put each Bunch in a glazed Earthen Veffel, in fuch Manner as 
to hang within Side, without rouching any Part thereof ; and having 
before prepar’d a fufficient Quantity of Sand well dried, I fill’d up each 
Pot therewith ; and then with wooden Covers to their Tops, feal’d 
them down, fo as to let no Air or Moifture in. ‘Then placing my Pots 
in a warm Cellar, I kept them till my Occafion requir’d me to ufe the 
Fruits, which was-about three Months after their natural Seafon. And 
‘tis my real Opinion, that» not only thefe Sorts of Fruits, but Peaches, 
Apricots, Plumbs, dc. may, by the fame Method, be kept many 
Months beyond their common Time. 
WHEN I pour'd away the Sand from the Bunches, I dipped them 
in clean Water, made Milkewarm, which wafhed.off the Grit of the 
Sand, and caufed a Kind of a Flew to fucceed. 
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that fall of themfelves are generally mealy. 
AND fome Autumn Fruits are to be eaten in like manner, which 
will not keep: a long while after gathering, and. fuck are the Burees, 
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7 BOTH Autumn and Winter Fruits muft not be gather'd until. you 
fee them begin to drop off themfelves, for then you may aflure your 
felf that Nature has perform’d her Part. “Tis very prudent to lay 
clean Wheat Straw under our Wall-Trees; and indeed Efpaliers, Dwarts, 
and Standards alfo, where the Kinds are good, to preferve the firft per- 
; fe& Fruits from being bruifed. 
AND be fure that you gather in your Winter Fruits before the Frofts 
~ come on, and that they are perfectly dry, and free from Bruifes. The 
beft Method of forting Fruits, is at gathering, taking the beft firlt, 
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