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feme others of the like Nature. Here* we 
think, that gathering Apples off the Tree by 
the Hand is too tedious for Cyder-Fruit, efpe- 
dally where there are great Quantities to be ga- 
thered ; therefore we prefer the poking them 
down with a Stick or Pole, or fhaking them 
down, provided the Apples are full ripe, and 
done by a careful Hand. If fo, it will be as 
little injurious to the Tree, if notlefs, than that 
of gathering them by the Hand with a Ladder, 
becaufe the Ladder by its Weight, and that of 
the Perfon on it, breaks and bruifes many of 
the tender Shoots and Boughs; for Fruit, when 
it is arrived to its full Maturity of Ripenefs, 
maybe ruffled off, or fhaken off, without ufing 
any great Force or Violence, fo as to injure the 
Trees. 
N. B. But my Correfpondent might have 
taken Notice, that although their Apple-Trees 
in the Southams are of the lowed fpreading 
Sort, and that therefore, as the Apples have not 
far to fall, yet their Fall may be made the 
more fecure from Bruifes, if a Platform of Straw 
is laid under each Tree, and a Blanket over the 
Straw ; and better dill, if at every Shaking, the 
Apples already fallen be removed. 
fhe Southams Method of hoarding Cyder-Apples. 
c - Their Method of hoarding Apples in the open 
Air. — As foon as the Apples are clear off the 
Tree, let them be pick’d up very clean, and 
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