¶ How to carry and conuey Cheries.
IF there be any great store of cheries that must be caryed any farre way, from whence they be gathered, there must be prouided eyther fine bas∣kets or siues: into which (when the chery pots be
The fruiterers secrets Containing directions, for the due time, and manner, of gathering all kindes of fruite, aswell stone-fruite as other: and how they are afterwards to be ordered in packing, carrying and conueighing them by land or by water; then in separating or culling them into diuers sorts; and lastly, in resruing or laying them vp, so, as may bee for their best lasting and continuance. Enterlaced with diuerse other secrets (and their naturall causes) touching trees, and their fruite. No treatise, to this purpose, being heretofore published.
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- The fruiterers secrets Containing directions, for the due time, and manner, of gathering all kindes of fruite, aswell stone-fruite as other: and how they are afterwards to be ordered in packing, carrying and conueighing them by land or by water; then in separating or culling them into diuers sorts; and lastly, in resruing or laying them vp, so, as may bee for their best lasting and continuance. Enterlaced with diuerse other secrets (and their naturall causes) touching trees, and their fruite. No treatise, to this purpose, being heretofore published.
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- N. F., fl. 1604.
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- At London :: Printed by R. B[radocke]and are to be solde by Roger Iackson, at his shop in Fleete-streete, neere the conduit,
- 1604.
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- Fruit -- England -- Harvesting -- Early works to 1800.
- Fruit -- Transportation -- Early works to 1800.
- Fruits -- Storage -- Early works to 1800.
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"The fruiterers secrets Containing directions, for the due time, and manner, of gathering all kindes of fruite, aswell stone-fruite as other: and how they are afterwards to be ordered in packing, carrying and conueighing them by land or by water; then in separating or culling them into diuers sorts; and lastly, in resruing or laying them vp, so, as may bee for their best lasting and continuance. Enterlaced with diuerse other secrets (and their naturall causes) touching trees, and their fruite. No treatise, to this purpose, being heretofore published." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00515.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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full, you must poure them out. Each of these siues should haue two laths in the bottome on the outside, not crost, but both one way: each lath must be about the breadth of two fingers: and about the breadth of the palme of a mans hand betwixt, or somewhat more asunder. The rea∣son why I wish these laths to be vsed in the bottome, is, because that when they be caryed vpon ones head, the siue being weake bottomed of it selfe, the carryers head will make a dent therein, the breadth of his head, which wold cause the cheryes, in all that circle of his head, to breake and to be brused: but the two laths will keepe his head from spoyling of the cheryes, and so to be easily carryed, hauing a wreath or some such thing betwixt him and the laths, for hurt∣ing of his head.
The French men commonly vse to carry their cherries in the very same pots that they gather them in, & neuer put them out vntill such times as they are to be spent. The Dutchmen doe turne them out of their cherry pots, into deepe rod-baskets. This latter way is not so good. For, lying so thick one vpon another, it quickly bringeth them into a heat: and once being in a heat, they presently rot.
But the Fruiterers of London (whose way I holde to be the best) doe first gather them into kibseis, or little open baskets: and by reason of their great quantity they poure them out gently into their siues, or broad baskets made siue fa∣shion: so filling them that the siues or bas∣kets
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may be three inches (or there about) emptie at the top. For when they be put into a Ship, Hoy, or boate, they are often (for want of roome) set one vp∣on another: which would hurt the cherries, if the siue or basket were full.
But otherwise, they that haue no great store to carry or conueigh by land, may conueigh them on horsebacke in a payre of panniers, on each side one, lyned thinne both in the bottom and top with fresh fearn. Prouided, that your panniers or baskets be full: or els the fruite will be spoiled with tossing.