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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00515	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.	N. F., fl. 1604.	1604 (1604)	STC 10650; ESTC S103478	17,384	33

THE FRVITERERS 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 reseruing 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 AT LONDON Printed by R.B. and are to be solde by Roger Iackson at his shop in Fleete-streete neere the conduit 1604. To the right honorable Charles Earle of Deuonshire Lo Mountioye Lo Lieutenant of Ireland and one of his Maiesties most honorable Priuie Councell N. F. wisheth long life with increase of honour RIght Honorable hauing long since often weighed and considered with my selfe the great care paines that haue been taken in setting forth sundry necessary books for planting grafting of fruit finding it by much experience no lesse needfull that the right order in gatheting keeping thereof should be made knowen obserued I resolued at length for the general good of the whole kingdome to lay downe in this small Treatise the disorder and abuses of the vnskilful in this kinde together with the true due course to be taken therein The worke now finished I haue presumed though far vnworthy to publish it to the world vnder the shadow of your honorable protection as the first fruites of a willing minde ready to make tender of his humble seruice acknowledgement of all duty to your Lordship to performe it in what he may Not doubting but that as your Ho next vnder his Maiestie hath been the protectour preseruer of the whole realme of Ireland you will also vouchsafe to patronize and protect one Irish-borne who by long experience hath made triall of that which he deliuereth to others Wherefore humbly crauing that your Honour will bee pleased to accept hereof to giue it countenance that so the rather it may haue free passage in despite of malitious scornfull tongues into the hands of all such as desire to eat the fruite of their owne vineyards in their due season I conclude with my earnest and feruent prayers to Almighty God for the protection and preseruation of your good Lordship in all true honour happines in this life hereafter to make you partaker of that inualuable incorruptible fruit of the life eternall which groweth not in orchards of mens planting but in the Paradise of God Nouember the 7. Your Honours in all humblenesse N. F. The Epistle to the Reader GEntle Reader as there haue been diuers bookes set forth for the good of this land and the great encrease of fruite As of planting setting proyning and grafting also of preseruing them after the order of the Apothecary so amongst the rest bestowe the Reading of this little worke wherein you shall finde the true order of gathering carrying and keeping of all sorts of fruites in their season and how you shall know what time your seuerall fruites are ready to be gathered especially all kinde of pippins and apples all kinde of peares wardens Quinces and Medlers also cherries and other stone fruite whatsoeuer I omit the nominating of all kind of fruites for they be too many to be seuerally named And commonly euery fruite country hath their seuerall names although one kinde of fruite As Iohn-apples be in some places called Dewzings or long-lasters and Gooddings be called old Wiues c. Yet although not seuerally named you shall by this Treatise know the due course how to gather all kindes in their prime and season and afterwards to carry or conueigh them either by land or by water and then how to reserue or keep them to endure longest And afore I proceede to the Treatise it selfe I thinke meete to acquaint thee from whence our great plentie of fruite in England came One Richard Harris of London borne in Ireland Fruiterer to King Henry the eight fetched out of Fraunce great store of grafies especially pippins before which time there was no right pippins in England He fetched also out of the Lowe Countries Cherrie grafts Peare grafts of diuers sorts Then tooke a peece of ground belonging to the King in the parrish of Tenham in Kent being about the quantitie of seauen score acres whereof he made an Orchard planting therein all those foraigne grafts Which Orchard is and hath been from time to time the chiefe Mother of all other orchards for those kindes of fruites in Kent and of diuers other places And afore that these said grafts were fetched out of Fraunce and the Lowe Countries although that there was some store of fruite in England yet there wanted both rare fruite and lasting fine fruite The Dutch French finding it to be so scarce especially in these countries neere London commonly plyed Billings-gate diuers other places with such kinde of fruite But now thankes bee to God diuers Gentlemen others taking delight in grafting being a matter so necessary and beneficial in a Cōmon-wealth haue planted many Orchards fetching their grafts out of that Orchard which Harris planted called the Newgarden And by reason of the great increase that now is growing in diuers parts of this Land of such fine seruiceable fruit there is no need of any foraigne fruite but we are able to serue other places Now therefore since it hath pleased Almighty God to giue encrease plenty of fruite in this land and that diuers haue taken paines in the maintenance thereof of all degrees the better sort for their pleasure in that they doe delight to see the worke of their owne handes prosper as also to eate the fruite thereof the common sort for profit and for the better reliefe of their family In regard I say of the great paines that haue been taken in planting setting grafting proyning whereby a great deale of ground hath been taken vp which might serue for other good purposes I thought good to shew what course might bee taken that mens Labours be not lost nor such great quantity of groūd wherein fruite doth growe lye in waste as it were and become vnprofitable through ignorance of well handling the fruite after God hath giuen it For if there be not as great care taken for the well gathering and good vsage of fruite as hath been for the planting thereof I account most of the labour in planting lost and the grounds wherein they growe to lye partly waste and better to be vsed for some other good purpose But the fruite being well handled vsed the ground can bee turned to no better profit And so committing both thy endeuours and these my labours to the blessing of God I hasten to the Directions themselues Thy well-willer N.F. THE FRVITERERS SECRETS Of Cherries CHerries are the first fruite that are to be gathered