rs well lined with Fearne, and packt full and
close is the best and safest way.

{SN: Other stone-fruit.}
Now for the gathering of all other stone-fruite, as Nectarines,
Apricockes, Peaches, Peare-plumbes, Damsons, Bullas, and such like,
although in their seuerall kinds, they seeme not to be ripe at once on
one tree: yet when any is ready to drop from the tree, though the other
seeme hard, yet they may also be gathered, for they haue receiued the
full substance the tree can giue them; and therefore the day being
faire, and the dew drawne away; set vp your Ladder, and as you gathered
your Cherries, so gather them: onely in the bottomes of your large
siues, where you part them, you shall lay Nettles, and likewise in the
top, for that will ripen those that are most vnready.

{SN: Gathering of Peares.}
In gathering of Peares are three things obserued; to gather for
expence, for transportation, or to sell to the Apothecary. If for
expence, and your owne vse, then gather them as soone as they change,
and are as it were halfe ripe, and no more but those which are changed,
letting the rest hang till they change also: for thus they will ripen
kindely, and not rot so soone, as if they were full ripe at the
gathering. But if your Peares be to be transported farre either by Land
or Water, then pull one from the tree, and cut it in the middest, and if
you finde it hollow about the choare, and the kernell a large space to
lye in: although no Peare be ready to drop from the tree, yet then they
may be gathered, and then laying them on a heape one vpon another, as of
necessity they must be for transportation, they will ripen of
themselues, and eate kindly: but gathered before, they will wither,
shrinke and eate rough, losing not onely their taste, but beauty.

Now for the manner of gathering; albeit some climb into the trees by the
boughes, and some by Ladder, yet both is amisse: the best way is with
the Ladder before spoken of, which standeth of it selfe, with a basket
and a line, which being full, you must gently let downe, and keeping the
string still in your hand, being emptied, draw it vp againe, and so
finish your labour, without troubling your selfe, or hurting the tree.

{SN: Gathering of Apples.}
Now touching the gathering of Apples, it is to be done according to the
ripening of the fruite; your Summer apples first, and the Winter after.

For Summer fruit, when it is ripe, some will drop from the tree, and
birds will be p