SECT. XVII. 



OF FRUITS, &C. 1 



well ripened, or they will fhrink. Lay them on heaps 

 till they have /iuea/ed a few days, when they muft be 

 wiped dry. Let them then lay fingly, or at leaft thinly, 

 for about a fortnight, and be again wiped, and immedi- 

 ately packed in boxes and hampers, lined with double 

 or treble fheets of paper. Place them gently in, and 

 cover clofe, fo as to keep air out as much as poflible. 

 Preferve them from frojl through the winter. Never 

 ufe hay for the purpofe. 



Some of the choicejl table forts of apples may be 

 treated as directed for the beft pears. 



The baking apples need not be packed, but either 

 kept fingly on the floor, or (helves, or in heaps covered 

 over, when they have fweated a tew days longer than 

 the others, and have been wiped dry ; yet thefe, if 

 packed, will certainly ftanda better chance of keeping 

 the longer. Remove all decaying fruit as foon as 

 difcovered, and fuffer no damp or mufty ftraw to re- 

 main in the room : Ufe that of wheat or rye. 



Apricot is a fruit fomething between a plumb and 

 a peach, partaking of a middle nature, both in growth 

 and tafte. 



The early majculine, Brvffeh, orange, Turkey, Breda , 

 and Moor park, or An/on, are the common and beft wall 

 forts ; but the Turkey, and the Moor-park , though ex- 

 cellent fruits, are idle uncertain bearers. The Dunmore 

 Breda (excellent) is ripe in September. 



Gather apricots a little before ripe, or they will lofe 

 that fmartnefs which recommends them. With refp eft 

 to thinning the trees of young fruit, when too full, fee 

 page 146. Particulars as to raiting, plantings &c. fee 

 pages 30, 37, 71, 90, 105, 105, T29, &c. 



Berberry (fometimes called piperidge) is a pretty 

 fruit, ufelul as a pre] r erve and garni 'fh ; a handfome fhrub, 

 which makes a profitable, and alfo ufeful hedge, for by 

 reafon of its thorns it is almoft impregnable. 



Befides the common red fruited, there is a Jlonelefs 

 red, preferred for preferves. See Lift 3, feci:. 19. Of 

 m'rfing this fhrub, &c. fee pages 76. 165. 



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