New Principles of Gardening. 
SEC. be XXy. 
Flow to preferve Winter Fruit after 
: Gathering. 
N the Gathering of all Kinds of Fruits, as I obferved be- 
fore, great Care muft be taken that they are perfe€tly dry, 
otherwife they will rot prefently ; and that they hang upon 
the Trees their full Time; for if Fruit be gather’d before, twill 
fhrink and become good for nothing. To know when it has 
hung its full Time, obferve when the Fruit naturally drops. of 
it felt, now and then one, &c. alfo when Fruit will drop by an 
eafy Touch, ’tis fully grown. 
As you gather Fruit, be careful to place it in the Basket, that. 
none be bruifed, for Bruifes caufe them to rot inftantly ; as al- 
fo, that you do not mix your gather’d Fruit with that that Has 
naturally fell of it felf, or by Winds. 
That your fine Winter Pears may not be deprived of any 
Rake their Beauty, take Care in gathering to preferve their 
Stalks. 
To prevent Fruit as is choice, from being bruifed, in forting 
the {mall ones from the large ones, let two Perfons be appointed 
to gather it, the one gathering the large and beft, and the other 
the fmall; or one Man may perform the whole, by gathering 
the beft firft, and the fmalleft at laft. 
When your Fruitis gather’d lay it in your Fruitery, in middling — 
Heaps, wherein they will {weat fora confiderable Time, which 
muft be obferved; and when over, lay them on your Shelves 
with clean Wheat - Straw underneath them, or, for want of 
Shelves, upon the like Straw on the Ground, and of fuch a Thick- 
nefs as to be eafily examined, and the rotten ones pick’d out as. 
they happen, which muft be minded with great Diligence, at 
leaft, every third Day. 
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