Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            that which is Sown; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4229" xml:space="preserve">both by keeping it from being picked up by Birds, and
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            by avoiding the ſhallow lying of it, whereby much that is ſown, taketh no
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            Root.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4231" xml:space="preserve">It is preſcribed by ſome of the Ancients, that you take ſmall Trees, upon
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            which Figs or other Fruit grow, being yet unripe, and cover the Trees in
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            the middle of Autumn with Dung until the Spring, and then take them
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            up in a warm day, and replant them in good Ground; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4232" xml:space="preserve">and by that means,
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            the former years Tree will be ripe, as by a new Birth, when other Trees of
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            the ſame kinde do but bloſſom. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4233" xml:space="preserve">But this ſeemeth to have no great pro-
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            bability.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4235" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That if you take Nitre, and mingle it with VVater, to
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            the thickneſs of Honey, and there with anoint the Bud, after the Vine is cut,
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            it will ſprout forth within eight days. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4236" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is like to be (if the
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            Experiment be true) the opening of the Bud, and of the parts contigu-
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            ous, by the Spirit of the Nitre; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4237" xml:space="preserve">for Nitre is (as it were) the life of Vege-
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            tables.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4239" xml:space="preserve">Take Seed or Kernels of Apples, Pears, Orenges; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4240" xml:space="preserve">or a Peach, or a Plumb-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-03" xlink:href="note-0130-03a" xml:space="preserve">445.</note>
            Stone, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4241" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4242" xml:space="preserve">And put them into a Squill, (which is like a great Onion) and they
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            will come up much eatlier than in the Earth it ſelf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4243" xml:space="preserve">This I conceive to be as
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            a kinde of Grafting in the Root; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4244" xml:space="preserve">for as the Stock of a Graſt yieldeth better
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            prepared nouriſhment to the Graft, than the Crude Earth, ſo the Squill doth
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            the like to the Seed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4245" xml:space="preserve">and, I ſuppoſe, the ſame would be done, by putting
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            Kernels into a Turnip, or the like, ſave that the Squill is more vigorous
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            and hot. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4246" xml:space="preserve">It may be tryed alſo, with putting Onion-Seed into an Onion-
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            Head, which thereby (perhaps) will bring forth a larger and earlier
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            Onion.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4248" xml:space="preserve">The pricking of a Fruit in ſeveral places, when it is almoſt at his big
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0130-04" xlink:href="note-0130-04a" xml:space="preserve">446.</note>
            neſs, and before it ripeneth, hath been practiſed with ſucceſs, to ripen the
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            Fruit more ſuddenly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4249" xml:space="preserve">We ſee the example of the biting of Waſ
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            ps or Worms
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            upon Fruit (whereby it manifeſtly) ripeneth the ſooner.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4251" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Alga Marina (Sea-Weed) put under the Roots of
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            Colworts, and (perhaps) of other Plants, will ſurther their growth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4252" xml:space="preserve">The
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            vert
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            ue (no doubt) hath relation to Salt, which is a great help to Fer-
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            tility.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4254" xml:space="preserve">It hath been practiſed to cut off the Stalks of Cucumbers, immediately
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            after their bearing cloſe by the Earth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4255" xml:space="preserve">and then to caſt a pretty quantity of
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            Earth upon the Plant that remaineth, and they will bear the next year Fruit
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            long before the ordinary time. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4256" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be, for that the Sap goeth
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            down the ſooner, and is not ſpent in the Stalk or Leaf, which remaineth
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            after the Fruit. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4257" xml:space="preserve">Where note, that the Dying in the Winter, of the Roots or
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            Plants that are Annual, ſeemeth to be pattly cauſed by the over-expence of
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            the Sap into Stalk and Leaves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4258" xml:space="preserve">which being prevented, they will ſuper annu-
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            ate, if they ſtand warm.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4260" xml:space="preserve">The pulling off many of the Bloſſoms from a Fruit-tree, doth make the
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            Fruit fairer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4261" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is manifeſt, for that the Sap hath the leſs to nouriſh.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4262" xml:space="preserve">And it is a common experience, That if you do not pull off ſome Bloſſoms,
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            the firſt time a Tree bloometh, it will bloſſom it ſelf to death.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4264" xml:space="preserve">It were good to try what would be the effect, if all the Bloſſoms were
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            pulled from a Fruit-tree, or the Acorns and Cheſnut-buds, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4265" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4266" xml:space="preserve">from a wilde
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            Tree, for two years together. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4267" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe, that the Tree will either put forth
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            the third year bigger, and more plentiful Fruit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4268" xml:space="preserve">or elſe, the ſame years, larger
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            Leaves, becauſe of the Sap ſtored up.</s>
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