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New Principles of Gardening. 
WN. B. There are fome Figs as do not difcover their Ripening 
by a Drop, therefore when ever they are obferved to decay or 
fg at the Stalk, you may depend upon their being ripe. 
figs mult wot be gather’d in the Heat of the Sun, therefore 
"tis beft to gather them ina Morning after the Dew is gone, and 
betore the Heat of the Day is come on; and being kept in 
the #ruitry one Night after gathering, caufes them to eat much 
fmer than when firft gather’d. 
Oe kel. x, 
Of the Native Place, Name, Expofition, and 
Culture of the Plumb. | 
ee ga HE native Places of the Plumb-Tree is Armenin, 
whofe Latitude is about fourty two Degrees, and Da- 
maftus (formerly a Town of Syria) fituated in thir- 
ty five Degrees Latitude, from whence they were firft brought 
into Ltaly. 
Ml. A Plumb, in Latin is called Prunus, or Prunum s in 
Arabick Anas, Avas, or Hlagias: in Italian Prune, or Succine ; 
fou, Greengage, ec. nay, all in general are vaitly helped 
thereby. 
IV. Its Culture. The Plumb delights in good Land, inclining 
to be rather firong and wet, than “ght and dry; and will ri- 
pee veny well againit Zaft, Wef, North-Eaft, or North-W, eft 
alls. | 
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