The compleat gard'ner, or, Directions for cultivating and right ordering of fruit-gardens and kitchen-gardens with divers reflections on several parts of husbandry, in six books : to which is added, his treatise of orange-trees, with the raising of melons, omitted in the French editions
La Quintinie, Jean de, 1626-1688., Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.
Eleventh ARTICLE.
It is likewise very material for the Master, as well as for the Gard'ner, to know how to gather all manner of Fruits well, of whatever Season they are; and to lay up, and or∣der, in the Store-house, such as do not ripen upon the Trees, to preserve both the one and the other in their Natural Beauty, and eat them in due Season, without allowing them time to spoil.
This may have been learn'd in the particular Treatise written upon that Subject.
