1 1 2, The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner. 



the fruit, being very tender, and fubjed 

 to bruife by the leafl: bending from the 

 natural place of their growth 5 which is 

 the reafon, as that ingenious gentleman 

 obferves, why the fruit which firft fets 

 feldom comes to perfedion, by reafon of 

 handling of them 5 but in fome remote 

 corner, where the plants are leaft re- 

 garded, commonly the firft perfeft fruit 

 is found. And as to the twifting of 

 melons, which many gardiners do in or- 

 der to get their fruit ripe, perhaps a 

 week or ten days fooner than ordinary 

 (as to the goodnefs of fruit it is by no 

 means approveable 5) nor do I find by 

 any obfervation I have ever made, that 

 the leaving on of falfe bloflbms be for 

 the advantage or difadvantage of the 

 vines, and fetting of the fruit, or whe- 

 ther they are the male kind, fo neceffary 

 as it is fuppofed for the impregnation 

 and forwarding the fruit in the others. 



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