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64 the GARDENS OF EPICURUS
to the end of September, and for all sicknesses of the
stomach (from which most others are judged to
proceed) I do not think any that are like me, the
most subject to them, shall complain, whenever they
eat thirty or forty cherries before meals, or the like
proportion of strawberries, white figs, soft peaches, or
grapes perfectly ripe. But these after Michaelmas T
do not think wholesome with us, unless attended by
some fit of hot and dry weather, more than is usual
after that season ; when the frosts or the rain have
taken them, they grow dangerous, and nothing but the
autumn and winter pears are to be reckoned in season,
besides apples, which, with cherries, are of all others
the most innocent food, and perhaps the best physick.
Now, whoever will be sure to eat good fruit, must do
it out of a garden of his own ; for besides the choice
so necessary in the sorts, the soil, and so many other
circumstances that go to compose a good garden, and
produce good fruits, there is something very nice in
gathering them, and choosing the best, even from the
same tree. The best sorts of all among us, which
I esteem the white figs and the soft peaches, will not
carry without suffering. The best fruit that is bought,
has no more of the master’s care, than how to raise
-the greatest gains ; his business is to have as much
to the end of September, and for all sicknesses of the
stomach (from which most others are judged to
proceed) I do not think any that are like me, the
most subject to them, shall complain, whenever they
eat thirty or forty cherries before meals, or the like
proportion of strawberries, white figs, soft peaches, or
grapes perfectly ripe. But these after Michaelmas T
do not think wholesome with us, unless attended by
some fit of hot and dry weather, more than is usual
after that season ; when the frosts or the rain have
taken them, they grow dangerous, and nothing but the
autumn and winter pears are to be reckoned in season,
besides apples, which, with cherries, are of all others
the most innocent food, and perhaps the best physick.
Now, whoever will be sure to eat good fruit, must do
it out of a garden of his own ; for besides the choice
so necessary in the sorts, the soil, and so many other
circumstances that go to compose a good garden, and
produce good fruits, there is something very nice in
gathering them, and choosing the best, even from the
same tree. The best sorts of all among us, which
I esteem the white figs and the soft peaches, will not
carry without suffering. The best fruit that is bought,
has no more of the master’s care, than how to raise
-the greatest gains ; his business is to have as much