The fifteenth Booke 



them ate put in barrels as plums be.FinallyjPeares and Apples bothjiave the properties of wine: G 

 and in like fort Phyficians be warie how they give diem to their patients. Howbeir, when they 

 be fodden in wine and water^they fcrve in ftead of abroth or greweil : and To doe no fruit cife but 

 Pome and Peare-Quinces. 



Chap. xvi. 

 ^The mamer how to prcferve ^pies . 



THe generall rules to keepe and prcferve Applesjarc thcfe. Iwfrimis^hu the folars be well 

 planked and boorded in a cold and drie place ^ provided alwaiesjthat the windowes to the 

 North doc ttand openjcfpecially every fairc day.^^/^3to keepe the windows into the South j-j 

 fhutjagainft the winds out of that corner : and yet the North winds alfo where they blowjdo caufe 

 Apples to fhrinke and rivell ilfavouredly . //^w^ That Apples bee gathered after thq^Equinox 

 in the Autumne : and neither before the full of the MoonCjUor the firft houre of the day.More- 

 over^ that all the Apples which fell^bc fevered from the other by themfelves,and laid apart : al- 

 fo that they be bedded Up on ftraw^matSjOrchaffe under them : that they be fo couched, as that 

 they touch not one anothetjbut have fpaces betweene to receive equall aire for to be vented. To 

 conclude^this is well kno wne^that the Amerine Apples do laft and keepe good long, wheras the 

 honie Apples will abide no time. 



Chap. xvii. 



Horv to keepe ^ifjces^ Pome-gramteSj Perns ^Sorvifes^and Grapes, 



I 



FOr the good keeping and preferving of Quinces^there mufl be no aire let into them whcrs 

 they are enclofed : or els they ought to be confe6ted in fodden honey jor boiled therein. 

 Pomgranates fhould be plunged into fea-water boiling,and fo hardei:^d therein: and af- 

 ter that they be dried in the Sunne three daies, (fo as they be not left abroad in tlic night to take 

 dew)they would be hanged up in a folar^and when a man lift to ufe theni, then they muft be well 

 wafhed in frefh water. CM.Farro fetteth downe the manner to keepe them within great earthen 

 veflcls^in fand. And if they be not ripCjhe would have the earthen pots bottomes broken off;,and 

 fo the Pomgranates to be put in, and covered all over with mould; but the mouth thereof niuft 

 be well flopped for letting any aire in 5 provided alwaieSjthat the fteele and thebraunch whereto f^ 

 the fruit groweth^be pitched. For fo (quoth he) they will not give over to grow ftilljyeajSi prove 

 bigger than if rhey had remained upon the tree. As for other Ponigranates[/.that areripejthey 

 maybe wrapped and lapped one by one in fig-leaves, fuch as are not fallen, but plucked from 

 off the tree greenc, andthentobeeputintotwiggepaniersof oifiers, or els daubed over with 



potters clay. ^ 

 He that would keepe Peares Iong,nuift put them in earthen vefTels turned with the bottomes 



upward, well varniilied or annealed wirbin,covered alfo with faw duft or fine fliaving3,arid fo en- 

 terred. As for the Tarentine Pcares,they abide longeft on the tree ere they be gathered.The A- 

 nitianPearesbewellprefervedincuit-wine. ^ ^ L 



As for Sorvifiesjthey are kept alfo in trcncheswithin the ground, but the cover of the vefiell 

 whereinto they are pur,ought to be well plaftered all over,and fo to ftand wo foot covered with 

 earth : alfo they may be fet in a place expofed open to the Sunne,with the bottome of the veflels 

 upward: yea, and within great barrels they may be hung up with their braunches and all^ after 

 the manner of grape-clufters. 



Someof our moderne writers handle this argument more deepcly than others^and fetch the 

 matter farreoff,giving out rules in this manner^ faying,That for to have Apples or Grapes de 

 garde^ that is to fay,fit to be preferved,and to latt long; the trees that beare the one and the other, 

 ought to be pruned and cut betimes,in the waine of the MooneJn faire weather,and when the 

 winds blow drie. Likewife they affirme, That fruits to be preferved, would be chofen from drie ^ 

 grounds : gathered before they be full ripe : and this would be looked unto in any hand, that the 

 Moonc at the gathering time,be under the earth, andnotappearinginourhemifphasre. And 

 more particularly, for Grape bunches they would be gathered with a foot or heele from the old 

 hard wood, and the Grapes that are corrupt and rotten among the reft, be dipped off with a 



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