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the next beft, and laftly the fmall ones. This’ Method preferves them 
from thofe Bruifes, which cannot be avoided, when the feveral Sizes of 
Fruits are gather d together, and afterwards tumbled about in forting. 
THE clofer that Autumn and Winter Fruits are kept from the Air; 
and the lefs difturb’d in keeping, the longer and better they will keep, 
being warm and free from Vermine, which we muft. carefully guard 
againft ; the firft by keeping the Windows clofe,; and covering thick 
with {weet Wheat Straw ; and the latter with Traps, Cats, Cc. - 
THE feveral Kinds of Fruits which follow in the enfuing Chapters, 
are in general of the beft Sorts: And altho’ I have placed to every 
Fruit, the Day on which ‘twas ripe this Year 1727. yet it is not to be 
expected that every Year hereafter will produce them at the fame Time. 
I have already proved that the different Nature of Soils alters the Good« 
nefs of Fruits, and therefore the fame is to be underftood in the Seafons 
of Ripening and Duration: For as thofe Fruits which grow on the 
Tops of. Trees are fooner ripe than the others nearer to the Roots, they 
having lefs Nourifhment’ communicated to them ; fo are Fruits much 
forwarder in dry, fandy, gravelly Soils, which have much lefs Plenty of 
Moifture, than Lands that are more plentifully ftored therewith. For 
tho’ Moifture promotes Growth, yer it retards che Maturity of Fruits ; 
and ‘tis therefore that the Opening of the Roots of Fruit-Trees in moift 
Lands, caufes their Fruits to be confiderably forwarder. 
AND fince that the different Natures of Soils caufe Fruits to ripen 
fooner in one Place than another, ’tis therefore that fome Peoples Winter 
Fruits, as Pears, de, are ripe and gone before their Neighbours are 
fcarcely eatable, : ) 
