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line your vessell at both ends with fine sweet straw; but not the sides,
to auoid heat: and you must bore a dozen holes at either end, to receiue
ayre so much the better; and by no meanes let them take wet. Some vse,
that transport beyond seas, to shut the fruite vnder hatches vpon straw:
but it is not so good, if caske may be gotten.

{SN: When not to transport fruit.}
It is not good to transport fruite in _March_, when the wind blowes
bitterly, nor in frosty weather, neither in the extreme heate of Summer.

{SN: To conuay small store of fruit.}
If the quantity be small you would carry, then you may carry them in
Dossers or Panniers, prouided they be euer filled close, and that
Cherries and Peares be lined with greene Fearne, and Apples with sweete
straw; and that, but at the bottomes and tops, not on the sides.

{SN: Roomes for fruite.}
Winter fruite must lye neither too hot, nor too cold; too close, nor too
open: for all are offensiue. A lowe roome or Cellar that is sweet, and
either boorded or paued, and not too close, is good, from _Christmas_
till _March_: and roomes that are seeled ouer head, and from the ground,
are good from _March_ till _May_: then the Cellar againe, from _May_
till _Michaelmas_. The apple loft would be seeled or boorded, which if
it want, take the longest Rye-straw, and raise it against the walles, to
make a fence as high as the fruite lyeth; and let it be no thicker then
to keepe the fruite from the wall, which being moyst, may doe hurt, or
if not moist, then the dust is offensiue.

{SN: Sorting of Fruit.}
There are some fruite which will last but vntill _Allhallontide_: they
must be laid by themselues; then those which will last till _Christmas_,
by themselues: then those which will last till it be _Candlemas_, by
themselues: those that will last till _Shrouetide_, by themselues: and
Pippins, Apple-Iohns, Peare-maines, and Winter-Russettings, which will
last all the yeere by themselues.

Now if you spy any rotten fruite in your heapes, pick them out, and with
a Trey for the purpose, see you turne the heapes ouer, and leaue not a
tainted Apple in them, diuiding the hardest by themselues, and the
broken skinned by themselues to be first spent, and the rotten ones to
be cast away; and euer as you turne them, and picke them, vnder-lay them
with fresh straw: thus shall you keepe them safe for your vse, which
otherwise would rot suddenly.

{SN: Times of stirring fruit.}
Pippins, Iohn