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the Tree ir. the night time, when tlstreis no Moon-light stirring. Pontamu a Couh-uy-man'of ours hath elegantly set down this matter. If you desire, faith he, to keepCitrons lorig without any haitn'&r loss of their courie vigor,you must take this: PluckcfF the Fruit together with the branches & leaver as they were upon the Tree,in thenight time when the Moon shines not at all: Then hang them up upon some hook ortack in some dark and close place ; see that you touch them but very softly, and let! o: any winde come at them ; or else lay them up amongst chaffe and dry straw,

So shall you keep the fruit found and good, and the leaves also green for a greatWhile together. There is also

An appointed time wherein Quince'pears are to be gathered.

I have found no better or surer way to [reserve Quince-pears, faith ColnmeHa, thenby gathering them that were very ripe and found, and without any blemish, atsuch time as the air was temperate, and the Moon in the warning. Likewise thefame Author prescribing unto us

±A time wherein Apples Are to be gathered that they may last the longer ,biddeth us to do thus. About August, choose,faith he,the sweetest Apples, suchas be nor over ripe, and they will be kept long. /V/a/counseliecb us to gather themfcsiter the ./Equinoctial in Autumne, but never before the Moon be fifteen dayes old,nor yet before one of the clock. And Palladius shews,

What time Pears are to be gathered in , that they map last long.

In a calm day, when the Moon is in the warning, and that also toward the latterend, betwixt the two and twenty and eight and twenty day of the Moon, youmust take them off the Tree with your hand, at such time of the day as the Sun isin some strength of heat, that is, either betwixt seven and ten in the morning, orelse betwixt two and five of the clock in the after-noon: and the Peats whichyou so gather, must be somewhat hard and green. 'Pamphilm an Husband-manprescribes

A certain tithe wherein to gather Cherries ,that they may last long,

Cherries area kinde of fruit that will soon wither ; and yet if you gather them be-fore the r sing of theSun, and so lay them up, they will be frestx ami good a greatwhile. Pail Aim prescribes . . - v

A certain time wherein to gather Medlars , that they may last long .

They ire to be gathered, faith he, in a fair day about Noon-tide; and they mustnot be thorough ripe. Cblttmetta faith, that

The time wherein yon gather Pomegranates to be laid up and preserved ,must be afair day when the air is temperate. Tliny Would have you to let them bewell dryed in the Sun, that there be none of the nights dew left upon them. Dt‘dymttt chooscth

A certain time whetein Grapes are to be gathered, that they may last long.

If you would lay op Grapes that they may last all the Winter long, yon must, faithhe, gather them after the soli of the Moon, when the air is clear and calm, aboutfour of the clock after-noon, when all the dew is quite dryed off from them: youmust gathv E them when they be at the best, even in their full strength, so thatthey be neither raw, nor yet past their ripest strength. Authors likewise daprescribe

A certain time wherein s'oirn is to be gathered and laid np.

When you have reaped your When or Barley, ycu must let it lye abroad in thefield one or two dayes, or at the least ore wh le night, and carry it away beforethe rising of the Sun, tnat so k may be throughly cold when it is laid into the barn;

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