Bacon, Francis
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Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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the firſt uniting, they be often watred; </
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dunged, will put up Plants contiguous; </
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their Shoots will incorporate. </
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out any binding and very oſten watred in a fruitful ground, with the very
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luxury of the Trees, will incorporate and grow together. </
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to me the likelieſt means that hath been propounded; </
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touching the
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Sympathy and
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touching the Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants; </
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worſe which they impute to Antipathy. </
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ceits, and forſake the true indication of the cauſes; </
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periments, that concern Sympathies and Antipathies do. </
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the other Plant, there the Neighborhood doth good. </
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Earth, and ſo ſoak the Earth, and exhauſt it, hurt all things that grow by
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the Earth, there as hath been ſaid) the one ſet by the other helpeth: </
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ſeldom or never in other places, unleſs they be ſet, but onely </
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