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The Life io the SE Ma Ye fs the Middle of September... 
\HIS will, for the prefent Week, be com- 
-_priz’d in a very few Words. Let the Gar- 
_ dener break and turn the Ground he has been pre-. 
_ paring for receiving” his Trees and Shrubs yet to. 
-be planted: let him water thofe already fett, and 
SEC ze 
-POMOWA, 
ae tall follow i in this Part the ei eee ibe 
‘as in the others ; mentioning what Fruits 
~~ are in their Petfe@tion at this Time, aid what Care 
and Culture the Trees require that bear them. 
ee) before: we enter on this Article, we muft cau- 
“Faults but our own; for there will here be the 
“Appearance of fome in us, which truly belong to 
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~ Nothing i is fo common as" a Catalogue of Fruit, 
“but nothing is fo imperfectly or erroneoufly treated 
by moft who have attempted it. 
Gardeners Kalenders have been given by the 
firft Writers on thefe Subjects in our Language ; 
and thefe have been tranfcrib’d from one of them _ 
into another down to the lateft: every new Au- | 
thor adding fomething; and the very beft not 
perceiving that they record, under a new Name 
over again, the fame.Fruit they have mentioned 
from their original Author under another. 
This is the Caufe why Monthly Catalogues | 
of Fruit are fo enlarged of late, and fo confus’d. 
The Authors hear a Parcel of Names us’d, and 
they fet down all they hear; not perceiving that 
often two or three of them denote but one Kind; 
becaufe that one is not known to them diftinétly. 
- Indeed, the Variations in fome Inftances are them- 
felves fo flight, or fo uncertain, that there is fome 
Excufe: for thefe are not DiftinGions of Species, 
which are permanent and immutable; but Varie- 
ties from the Accidents of Culture. 
What can be done in this we fhall attempt. 
The Path marked out by Reafon is open and evi- 
dent. Lifts of Names are ufelefs, becaufe the © 
Reader may apply them, like the Writer, to one 
Fruit or another. 
‘The. Minion has-been ripe fome Time; 
continues .as.'excellent as at firft ; this is a large 
Peach, with a fmall round Stone ; 
| a very fine Peach : 
| clear away Weeds from fah as are to remain in. 
their Places. This done, he may quit this Piece for 
the prefent, to attend where he i is call’d. more need- 
is el | 
Il. 
on the FRUIT-GARDEN. 
| We propofe Information; and we  thall, 
in this Cafe, attempt it, by adding to’ the Nate 
of every Fruit the Defcription of its peculiar Cha- 
racters. This will convey Inftruction, at the fame 
Time it’ reminds the Reader ‘of the Produéts of 
the Seafon; and we flatter’ ourfélves will place 
ome Merit in a Part, ‘in ‘all other Works of » this 
‘Kind, ufelefs, : | 
The early Peaches are now gone. The Nrera 
} Ring, Troy, and: Capucuine, and the Waite 
Macpaten and ISNT RRM are either rotted 
or ill-tafted. . 
The Middle: Putiica:. are jut: in full Seafon. 
but it 
tis red to the 
Sun, and whitifh next the Wall...The Juice is rich 
and -high-flavour’d; and it is bloody round -the 
Stone. | 
The Rovat C Germne is now full ripe, and: is 
itis round, and has no Point, 
as fome, that refemble it, have at the Tip. 
There runs a Cleft down one Side, and it is flat 
at the Stalk. It is downy, and the Ground-Co- 
lour is white: where it is open to the Sun it is of 
_a Blood-red; and where it faces the Wall it. is 
ufually fpotted. The Flefh of it is very well 
tafted, and melting; and it is of a bright red, 
not fo.deep as the former, near the Stone. 
The Nogiesse is another Peach now in its 
Perfection. It is roundifh, and of a pale green 
Colour, but of a deep Purple on the funny Side. 
The Flefh alfo is greenifh, and very well tafted; 
and it comes clean and free from the Stone. 
The Portucat Pracu is alfo now in its Per- 
fection. This is one of the large round Kinds : its 
Colour 
