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Palates ; and the different Seafons 

 in which each Kind is in eating, be- 

 ing exhibited (allowing a little for 

 the Difference of Seafons, which are 

 earlier fome Years than others ), it 

 is not very difficult for a Perfon to 

 make a Collection of good Pears to 

 fucceed each other throughout the 

 Sealbn of thefe Fruits, boih for eat- 

 ing and baking. 



The Time of each Fruit ripening, 

 as her? let down, is taken at a Me- 

 Ham for fsven Years, and in the 

 Neighbourhood of London, whtreail 

 Soi ts of Fruit generally ripen a Fort- 

 night or three We< !« earlier than in 

 almoft any Part of England ; and it 

 is very obvious to every Perfon, who 

 wid attend to the Culture of Fruit- 

 trees, that their Time of ripening is 

 accelerated by long Cultivation ; 

 for man y of the Sorts of Pears,which 

 fome Years pa,ft rarely became ripe 

 in England, unlefs they grew againft 

 the belt afpecled Walls, are now 

 found to ripen extremely well on 

 Efpaiiers and Dwarfs ; and thofe 

 Pears which feldom were in eating 

 till fanttary, are ripe two Months 

 earlier : there is alfo a very great 

 .Oifferer.ce in their time of ripening 

 in different Seafons ; for I have 

 known the Fruit of a Pear tree in 

 one Year all /ipe and gone by the 

 Middle of Qftober ; and the very 

 next Year the Fruit of the fameTree 

 has not been fit to eat till the End 

 of December ; fo that Allowance 

 fnould be made for thefe Accidents. 

 The Befi de Chaumontelle Pear, 

 about thirty Years paft, was feldom 

 fit to eat before February ; and has 

 continued good till the Middle of 

 April : but now this Pear is com- 

 monly ripe in November', and when 

 it is planted on a warm Soil, and 

 againft a good-afpefted Wall, it is 

 in eating the Middle of Odtobcr. 

 This { or warding cf the feveral kinds 



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of Pears may be in fome meafure 

 owing to the Stocks upon which 

 they are grafted ; for if they are 

 grafted upon early Summer Pear- 

 itocks, they will ripen much earlier 

 than when they are upon hard Win- 

 ter Pear flocks : andif fortie of the 

 very loft melting Pears wrc grafted 

 upon fuch Stocks as are railed from 

 tr.e moll aufiere Fruit, fueh as are 

 never fit to eat, and of wh eh the belt 

 Perry is made, it would improve 

 thofe Fruits, and continue them 

 much longer good ; or if the com- 

 mon Free- Hoc ks were firft g r afted 

 witu any of thefe hardWinter Pears, 

 and when they have grown a Year, 

 then to graft or bud thefe foft melt- 

 ing Pears upon them, it would have 

 the fame Effect ; but the Pears fo 

 raifed will require a Year's more 

 Growth in the Nurfery; and conse- 

 quently cannot be fold at the fame 

 Price as thofe which are raifed in the 

 common Method, thefe requiting to 

 be twice budded or grafted ; fo that 

 there is double Labour, befi de Hand- 

 ing a full Year longer : but this 

 Difference in the firft Expence of the 

 Trees is not worth regarding by any 

 Perfon who is defirous to have good 

 Fruit : for the fetting out in a right 

 way is that which every one fhould 

 be the moil careful of ; fince by 

 millaking at firft, much time is loft \ 

 and an After-expence of new Trees 

 often attends it. 



Another Caufe of Fruits ripening 

 earlier now, than they formerly did, 

 may be from the Length of time 

 they have been cultivated ; for it is 

 very certain, that moft Sorts of 

 Plants have been greatly forwarded 

 and improved by Culture, within 

 the Space of thirty or forty Year% as 

 may be known from the feveral Sorts 

 of efculent Plants, which are culti- 

 vated in the Kitchen-gardens ; and of 

 which Sorts there are many which 



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