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

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            the firſt uniting, they be often watred; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4429" xml:space="preserve">for all moiſture helpeth to Union.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4430" xml:space="preserve">And it is preſcribed alſo to binde the Bud, as ſoon as it cometh forth, as we
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            ll
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            as the Stock, at the leaſt for a time.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4432" xml:space="preserve">They report, that divers Seeds put into a Clout, and laid in Earth well
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0135-01" xlink:href="note-0135-01a" xml:space="preserve">478.</note>
            dunged, will put up Plants contiguous; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4433" xml:space="preserve">which (after wards) being bound in,
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            their Shoots will incorporate. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4434" xml:space="preserve">The like is ſaid of Kernels put into a Bottle,
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            with a narrow mouth, filled with Earth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4436" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that young Trees of ſeveral kindes ſet contiguous with-
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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. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4437" xml:space="preserve">Which ſeemeth
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            to me the likelieſt means that hath been propounded; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4438" xml:space="preserve">for that the binding
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            doth hinder the natural ſwelling of the Tree, which, while it is in motion,
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            doth better unite.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4440" xml:space="preserve">THere are many ancient and received Traditions and Obſervations,
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0135-03" xlink:href="note-0135-03a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Sympathy and
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              Antipathy of
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              Plants.</note>
            touching the Sympathy and Antipathy of Plants; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4441" xml:space="preserve">for that ſome will
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            thrive beſt growing near others, which they impute to Sympathy; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4442" xml:space="preserve">and ſome
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            worſe which they impute to Antipathy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4443" xml:space="preserve">But theſe are idle and ignorant con-
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            ceits, and forſake the true indication of the cauſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4444" xml:space="preserve">as the moſt part of Ex-
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            periments, that concern Sympathies and Antipathies do. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4445" xml:space="preserve">For as to Plants, neither
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            is there any ſuch ſecret Friendſhip, or Hatred, as they imagine. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4446" xml:space="preserve">And
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            if we ſhould be content to call it Sympathy and Antipathy, it is utterly miſtaken;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4447" xml:space="preserve">for their Sympathy is an Antipathy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4448" xml:space="preserve">and their Antipathy is a Sympathy: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4449" xml:space="preserve">For it is
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            thus, whereſoever one Plant draweth ſuch a particular Juyce out of the
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            Earth, as it qualifieth the Earth, ſo as that Juyce which remaineth is fit for
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            the other Plant, there the Neighborhood doth good. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4450" xml:space="preserve">becauſe the nouriſh-
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            ments are contrary, or ſeveral: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4451" xml:space="preserve">But where two Plants draw (much) the
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            ſame Juyce, there the Neighborhood hurteth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4452" xml:space="preserve">for the one deceiveth the
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            other.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4454" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, therefore, all Plants that do draw much nouriſhment from the
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            Earth, and ſo ſoak the Earth, and exhauſt it, hurt all things that grow by
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            them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4455" xml:space="preserve">as great Trees, (eſpecially Aſhes) and ſuch Trees, as ſpred their
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            Roots near the top of the ground. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4456" xml:space="preserve">So the Cole wort is not an enemy (though
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            that were anciently received) to the Vine onely; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4457" xml:space="preserve">but it is an enemy to any
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            other Plant, becauſe it draweth ſtrongly the fatteſt Juyce of the Earth.
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4458" xml:space="preserve">And if it be true, that the Vine, when it creepeth near the Cole wort, will turn
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            away: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4459" xml:space="preserve">This may be, becauſe there it findeth worſe nouriſhment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4460" xml:space="preserve">for
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            though the Root be where it was, yet (I doubt) the Plant will bend as it
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            nouriſheth.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4462" xml:space="preserve">Where Plants are of ſeveral Natures, and draw ſeveral Juyces out of
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            the Earth, there as hath been ſaid) the one ſet by the other helpeth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4463" xml:space="preserve">Asit
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            is ſet down by divers of the Ancients, that Rew doth profper much, and be-
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            cometh ſtronger, if it be ſet by a Fig-Tree: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4464" xml:space="preserve">Which (we conceive) is cauſed
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            not by reaſon of Friendſhip, but by Extraction of contrary Juyces; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4465" xml:space="preserve">the
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            one drawing Juyce fit to reſult ſweet, the other bitter. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4466" xml:space="preserve">So they have ſet down
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            likewiſe, that a Roſe ſet by Garlick is ſweeter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4467" xml:space="preserve">which likewiſe may be, becauſe
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            the more Fetide Juyce of the Earth goeth into the Garlick, and the more
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            oderate into the Roſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4469" xml:space="preserve">This we ſee manifeſtly, That there be certain Corn-Flowers which come
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            ſeldom or never in other places, unleſs they be ſet, but onely </s>
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