The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner, 



Ions firft fets or appears, efpecially if 

 the weather be either too hot or too 

 cold 5 particularly as to the laft, if the 

 ridge decays in its heat, the intenfenefs 

 of the fun, or at leaft thofe fudden and 

 violent fits of it that often happens in 

 the fpring, is as deftrudive to the well 

 fetting of fruit, as cold is 5 becaufe by 

 coming all of a fudden it gives fuch a 

 fhock to nature, that fruit of all kinds 

 tumbles off more by it than colder wea- 

 ther; which fhould dired the careful 

 mclonifl to cover his glaifes with wheat- 

 ftraw, and give the vines only a glim- 

 mering light, on all fuch violent occa- 

 fions, till the fruit is ftronger and bet- 

 ter fct 5 and in cafe of cold weather, 

 and the ridge begins to abate of its heat, 

 the fides of the beds fhould be all new- 

 lin'd, and that very foon, before the 

 plants complain, or elfc you may lofe 

 this firft crop, to your great fhame and 

 difcontent 5 having the flicks always 

 fi:uck ready in the ridge, to be pulled 

 out on every occafion, as faithful mo- 

 nitors of the good or ill temper the ridge 

 is in. 



Then as to covering, it fhould be (as 

 Monfieur T)e la ^mtime direds) from 



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