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. i) From Time to. Time-there will have appear’d | thro” the | 
- common Way of Batketing, have be 7 . 
ould 
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from the Heap ; therefore they would,, in. the 
been pu fai | : mca a his Gatherings are in the Jars. 
directed the Gardener cine to ule up his F ruit | 
_and Shelves of the Fruitery: Ass WJ 
Tt will now have lain fome Weeks. ood it.is to 4 
be bafketted for longer ‘Keeping.’ ‘Let fome deep | 
. ‘Bafkets be prepar’d, and fet on a Kitcl 
Day, that they may be thoroughly dry and hot heat- 
»remov’d it. 
{carce ever, if he haye beftow’d due Care in picking 
the Fruit for them orif i it be, -his Smell will difco- 
-ver in which, and he will need unpack no other. 
dn: this'Café he thould lay out’ the good Pears 
Dreffer all, So -preferit Ufe, not pack them up 
again. when’ he 
‘has: thrown out that which has occafioned’ the 
ed; andlet a good Quantity of Wheat-Straw lie there | Damiage : “for it is fearce to be conceiv’d how 
among them, to dry perfeétly in the fame Manner. | 
~ fome tainted Fruit, which we have directed © be | 
taken away as foon as feen,- There appear’d no 
Mark of Rottennefs in thefe when they were wi vd 
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with, the others; and many of : then LW be 
sit there, PRT tainted all ‘the elt, CLE ga ae 
‘Now all that were’ difpos’d moft'to d ec 7, have 
“ie feparated; and therefore picking. the uid 
“a8 ‘Pande of. fuch as. remain, ‘there . is wy 
-mott a Certainty of their keeping. . 
Let the Bafkets be lin’d at the Bottom pete Sides | 
‘with: fome of the Wheat-Straw 5, and. thus Br | | 
par’ brought i into the Fruitery. Os. 
: Let the beft of the Pears be picked of iam | 
the Floor and Shelves, and one by one wip’d — 
_and laid carefully into the Bafkets. - 
~ “When they are fill’d, -cover the Pears well with | 
more of the Straw; and then faften down the | 
Bafkets. 
Tye i it up by a a ‘String in the Fruitery,, ‘and thus | 
proceed with the whole Number. no) one 
| flight -a- Degree of ‘Contagion ‘will fpread. itfelf 
é. Thus we direét the Gardener, “on 
all thefe: ‘Oecafions, to fort and: feparate his F ruit 3 
| According to ‘the Degree of Goodnefs, 
~"Thefe-on’ the Fldbr,; from whith he ig to fill 
the Bafkets, are but, a fecond Kind in Value; for 
“Even: thefe may | ‘be divided into three Kitids ; . 
a a better, a middling, and a more indifferent : ane 
4 it will be very proper. to do it, at he Tite of 
-Bafketing ; ; inthis Manner: ... 
“The finer being. taken up for that Purpot the 
| finferior ‘Kind will be left upon the F loor, to be 
| eaten firft.. Of the fine ones taken up for Bafket- 
ing, “all will not be alike ; 5 and it will, therefore be 
| eafy to divide them into a firft and fecond. Sort; 
The fitft or fineft need not “be many, and they 
may be preferved with yet greater Care in the. 
Bafkets. : 
* There is ; a Wind of 1 very thick coarfe Paper; it 
is reddifh in Colour, and it comes. from Holland ; 
| the Apothecaries ufe it for F ilterine, 
- Let fome of this, be dry’d in the famé Manner 
as the Bafkets and Ne ; and let thefe fineft 
The Temperature of the Air. being ay Da pre- | | faa when they have been. carefully wip’d with 
ferv’d in this Room, by fhutting the Windows i in 
Froft and. Fog, and. opening them (whatever I - 
norance or Obftinacy may fay againft it) in ik 
es! Days, the Fruit will keep, a. long, g Time. . 
fl 
a Flannel, be wrap’d . ‘up, one by one, in. half 
Sheets of this Paper, if of the largeft Kinds ; SOF | 
| for the ufual ‘Size a. Sheet. cut Jength-wife into 
| three, is a proper. Quantity. In this the Body of 
. All bad or decaying Fruit, that. thal. pape af | j. the Pear is to be wrap’d, and ir muft. be brought 
ter this, in the Room,. mutt be. care fully. ipl i 
- tt, for it. will infect, the. Air; i 034; af 
there will be no Danger... 
clofe, and ty’d gently with 4 double. Thread at 
|. the {mall End. . 
bee big 4 ; 
“When they ; are yuo BEG te pe be laid j in 
~ Let, the Gardener however 20.3 in. once ‘in moc .a Bafket, lin’d at the Bottom. and Sides . with 
_ Days, during, the Winter,, to. fee all HEP 3 as jit 
_ fhould ; .and.he will percei ive by the, Smell w et hel 
_ there be any thir amifs. ii Silas i leah 
ee he e Rate Rottennefs or ‘Mouldynes, let him 
ute and | 
‘Few Words - may “comptife all that can ‘be | : 
neceflary to be done under this Article for — 
Our Gardener has, before } 
this Time, planted wherever Trees were wanted ;. 
the prefent Week. 
and having been warn’d of the Power which Frofts 
have over Trees rock’d in the Ground by Winds, 
he has ftak’d’ fuch as ftand free, and nail’d thofe 
to the Wall, which are planted for that Purpofe. 
We have only:to remind him now to. go the 
Round among, them, and fee.all.that he made 
fecure remains fo. Let him examine if no Stake 
Straw, ww, and cover’d with amore. 
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A. Mark fhould be. put upon. ghd particular 
Bafkets,. that ‘the Gardener. may know. where. to 
find them on any Occafion. They. will be. pre- 
feryid Papas and. ‘shea in acim 
on 
is. foot” ‘nor, any a ‘has neat ‘and fet Sir 
fcatter a little Haulm,. or. fome other Co vering’ 
upon the Earth, about the Bottom. of the Stems. 
Tf any thing 2 have been. omitted of what we 
tive direéted. in ‘the preceding Weeks, det it. be 
done, or omitted i in this, according r tO. the Wea- 
ther. If that be “frotty, all the Expeftation of 
Advantage is at an End for the Seafon: and 
‘what has not been done when it fhould have been, 
amuft be let alone till Spring. . 
SECT. 
| He.need not unpack. the Bafkets i in 
-emmmeme in a Heap; and when the. proper Sweating. is | this Seatch the Fault is rarely in them: indeed 
~. over, to fpread a good Part of, it mn. Ps, loos, | 
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