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CHAPTER XXV, 



OF GATHERING APPLES AND PEARS. 



The Time and Manner of Gathering them ; and of the Manage- 

 ment of the Fruit-room— Of Packing Fruit for Carriage, 



As Apples fhaken or beaten down with a pole never keep 

 in Winter, they ought all to be hand-picked by a perfon 

 {landing on fteps made on purpofe. 



The fteps fhould be light, for convenience of moving from 

 one place to another ; and fo contrived, that the ladder may 

 be difen gaged from the back at pleafure ; which may eafily 

 be done if they are fattened together by a bolt at top. There 

 fhould be a broad ftep at top to Hand on, with room for the 

 bafket which is to hold the fruit. When you begin to gather 

 the fruit, you fhould be provided with hand-bafkets of diffe- 

 rent fizes, and alfo with large balkets, or hampers, and wheel- 

 barrows. You muft lay fome fhort-grafs mowings, perfectly 

 dry, (which you ought to provide for the purpofe in Summer, 

 and keep in a fhed or any other dry place till wanted) at the 



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