SECT. XVII* OF FRUITS, 



days, mull be laid fingly (at fome diftance from one 

 another) on a ihelf. See pages 37, 74-, 103. 



Raspberry, the kinds are red and white, and of 

 each a twice bearing fort, i. e. producing fruit in fum- 

 mer and autumn. Of the red there is a prickly wooded 

 fort, and a fmooth one, called the &xm\ and fometimes 

 the reed rafpberry ; and the large Antwerp, of a yellow 

 white, fometimes called the Middleton Rafp. 



Gather this fruit carefully, and not long before 

 vvanted ; lay no great quantity together. Rafpberriea 

 prefently lofe their flavour, and tend to decay. See 

 pages 38, 55, 77, 106, 164. 



Service, (fweet) oxforb apple, is rarely cultivated 

 for fruit, as it requires a warmer climate than England 

 to ripen it. In fa£r, it never ripens or* the tree. It 

 i& gathered late in autumn, in a very auftere ftate, and 

 laid by on ftraw to decay, when in about a month it 

 becomes agreeable to eat. The trees are hardy, and 

 the curious often plant them, merely for the fingularity 

 of their leaves and fruit. This tree is fometimes 

 trained, on a wall, or efpalier, as pears. There is a 

 variety, as the apple, the pear, (haped, &c. See lifts 

 of trees, 1, 2, Seel. 19. 



Strawberry : Of this fine flavoured fruit, beau- 

 tiful and fragrant, we have the following forts : Red, 

 ivhite, and green wood ; red and white Alpine : fear let ; 

 Carolina; hautboy; red and green pine-apple; Chili , 

 ot forts; with forne feminai varieties, as feveral of the 

 hautboy, and one in particular of the Carolina, called 

 the pink flejhed ftrawberry. There is alfo a ftrawberry 

 with one leaf, a variety of the wood and prolific. 



Gather ftrawberries regularly as they ripen, with a 

 bit of their ftalk, and never lay many together to prefs 

 upon one another. The frefher they are, the finer 

 eating ; for this fruit, as the rafpberry, is quite naught 

 when ftale. See pages 38, 5 1, 55, 77, 111, 165. 



Walnut, there are feveral forts of, as early and 

 late, Jmall and large, thick and thin Jhslled, &c. Two 



N 3 only 



