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

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            Corn: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4470" xml:space="preserve">As the blew Bottle a kinde of yellow Mary-Gold, Wilde Poppey,
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            and Fumitory. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4471" xml:space="preserve">Neither can this be by reaſon of the culture of the Ground,
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            by Ploughing or Furrowing, as ſome Herbs and Flowers will grow but in
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            Ditches new caſt, for if the ground lye fallow and unſown, they will not
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            come: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4472" xml:space="preserve">So as it ſhould ſeem to be the Corn that qualifieth the Earth, and pre-
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            pareth it for their growth.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4474" xml:space="preserve">This obſervation if it holdeth (as it is very probable) is of great uſe, for
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-01" xlink:href="note-0136-01a" xml:space="preserve">483.</note>
            the meliorating of taſte in Fruits, and Eſculent Herbs, and of the ſent of
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            Flowers. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4475" xml:space="preserve">For I do not doubt, but if the Fig-tree do make the Rew more
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            ſtrong and bitter, (as the Ancients have noted) good ſtore of Rew planted
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            about the Fig-tree, will make the Fig more ſweet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4476" xml:space="preserve">Now the taſtes that do
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            moſt offend in Fruits, and Herbs, and Roots, are bitter, harſh, ſour, and watriſh,
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            or flaſhy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4477" xml:space="preserve">It were good therefore to make the Tryals following.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4479" xml:space="preserve">Take Wormwood or Rew, and ſet it near Lettuce, or Coleflory, or
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-02" xlink:href="note-0136-02a" xml:space="preserve">484.</note>
            Artichoak; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4480" xml:space="preserve">and ſee whether the Lettuce, or the Coleflory, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4481" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4482" xml:space="preserve">become not
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            the ſweeter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4484" xml:space="preserve">Take a Service-tree, or a Cornelian-tree, or an Elder-tree, which we
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            know have Fruits of harſh and binding Juyce, and ſet them near a Vine or
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            Fig tree, and ſee whether the Grapes or Figs will not be the ſweeter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4486" xml:space="preserve">Take Cucumbers or Pumpions, and ſet them (here and there) amongſt
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-04" xlink:href="note-0136-04a" xml:space="preserve">486.</note>
            Musk-Melons, and ſee whether the Melons will not be more winy, and better
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            taſted. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4487" xml:space="preserve">Set Cucumbers (like wiſe) amongſt Raddiſh, and ſee whether the
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            Raddiſh will not be made the more biting.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4489" xml:space="preserve">Take Sorrel and ſet it amongſt Raſps, and ſee whether the Raſps will not
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0136-05" xlink:href="note-0136-05a" xml:space="preserve">487.</note>
            be the ſweeter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4491" xml:space="preserve">Take Common Bryar, and ſet it amongſt Violets or Wall-flowers, and
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            ſee whether it will not make the Violets or Wall-flowers ſweeter, and leſs
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            earthy in their ſmell. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4492" xml:space="preserve">So ſet Lettuce or Cucumbers, amongſt Roſemary or
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            Bays, and ſee whether the Roſemary or Bays, will not be the more oderate or
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            aromatical.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4494" xml:space="preserve">Contrariwiſe, you muſt take heed how you ſet Herbs together that draw
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            much the like Juyce. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4495" xml:space="preserve">And therefore I think Roſemary will leeſe in ſweetneſs,
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            if it be ſet with Lavender or Bays, or the like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4496" xml:space="preserve">Butyer, if you will correct the
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            ſtrength of an Herb, you ſhall do well to ſet other like Herbs by him, to take
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            him down; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4497" xml:space="preserve">and if you would ſet Tanſey by Angelica, it may be the Ange-
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            lica would be the weaker and fitter for mixture in perfume. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4498" xml:space="preserve">And if you
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            ſhould ſet Rew by Common Wormwood, it may be, the Wormwood
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            would turn to be liker Roman Wormwood.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4500" xml:space="preserve">This Axiom is of large extent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4501" xml:space="preserve">and thereſore would be ſevered, and re-
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            fined by Tryal. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4502" xml:space="preserve">Neither muſt you expect to have a groſs difference by this
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            kinde of Culture, but onely further Perfection.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4504" xml:space="preserve">Tryal would be alſo made in Herbs, Poyſonous, and Purgative, whoſe
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            ill quality (perhaps) may be diſcharged or attempted, by ſetting ſtronger
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            Poyſons or Purgatives by them.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4506" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That the Shrub called Our Ladies Seal, (which is a kinde
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            of Briony) and Coleworts, ſet near together, one or both will die. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4507" xml:space="preserve">The
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            cauſe is, for that they be both great Depredators of the Earth, and one of
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            them ſtarveth the other. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4508" xml:space="preserve">The like is ſaid of Reed, and a Brake, both which
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            are ſucculent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4509" xml:space="preserve">and therefore the one deceiveth the other. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4510" xml:space="preserve">And the like of
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            Hemlock and Rew, both which draw ſtrong Juyces.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4512" xml:space="preserve">Some of the Ancients, and like wiſe divers of the Modern Writers, that
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            have labored in Natural Magick, have noted a Sympathy between the </s>
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