c £be ordering of the Orchard. 
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vfe them, they doe wa(h thcfeedes or meale from them when they vfe them. Another 
way is, that hauing gathered the faireft ripe grapes, they are to be caft vpon thrcdsor 
firings that are fattened at both ends to the fide walks of a chamber,neere vnto the fee- 
ling thereof, that no one bunch touch another, which will bee fo kept a great while , 
yet the chamber mutt be well defended from the f tofts, and cold windes that pierce in 
at the windowes, left they perifh the fooner : and fome will dippe the ends of the 
branches they hang vp firft in molten pitch, thinking by fearing vp the ends to kcepe 
the bunches the better ; but I doe not fee any great likelihood therein. Your chamber 
or clofetyou appoint out for this purpofc muft alfo bee kept fomewhat warme, but e- 
fpecially in the more cold and froftie time of the yeare, left it fpoile all your coft and 
paines, and fruftrate you of all your hopes : but although the frofts fliould pierce and 
fpoile fome of the grapes on a bunch, yet it you be carefull to keepe the place warme, 
the fewer will be fpoiled. And thus haue 1 (hewed you thebeft directions to order this 
Orchard rightly, and all the waies I know are vfed in ourCountrie to keep grapes good 
anie long time after the gathering, in regard wee haue not that comfort of a hotter Sun 
to preferue them by its heate. 
The fruits themfelues (lull follow euetie one in their order j the lower Ihrubbes 01 
bullies firft, and the greater afterwards. ’» 
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