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

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[141.] THE BOOK-SELLER UNTO THE READER.
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[142.] FINIS.
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[143.] NEW ATLANTIS.
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[144.] A VVork unfinished. Written by the Right Honorable, FRANCIS Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Albans.
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[145.] TO THE READER
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[146.] NEW ATLANTIS.
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[147.] The reſt was not perfected.
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[148.] Magnalia Naturæ præcipue quoad uſus Humanos.
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[149.] FINIS.
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            ceived, that the keeping of the Sun from the Fruit, may hurt it: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4635" xml:space="preserve">But there
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            isordinary experience of Fruit that gro weth covered. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4636" xml:space="preserve">Quare alſo, whether
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            ſome ſmall holes may not be made in the Wood to let in the Sun. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4637" xml:space="preserve">And note,
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            that it were beſt to make the Moulds partible, glued, or cemented together,
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            that you may open them when you take out the Fruit.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4638" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4639" xml:space="preserve">It is a curioſity to have Inſeriptions or Engravings, in Fruit or Trees. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4640" xml:space="preserve">This
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-01" xlink:href="note-0142-01a" xml:space="preserve">503.</note>
            is eafily performed, by writing with a Needle, or Bodkin, or Knife, or the like,
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            when the Fruit or Trees are young; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4641" xml:space="preserve">for as they grow, ſo the Letters will
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            grow more large, and graphical.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head41" style="it" xml:space="preserve">--Teneriſque meos incidere Amores
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          Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4643" xml:space="preserve">You may have Trees apparelled with Flowers or Herbs by boring holes
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-02" xlink:href="note-0142-02a" xml:space="preserve">504.</note>
            in the Bodies of them, and putting into them Earth holpen with Muck, and
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            ſetting Seeds or Slips, of Violets, Stra wberries Wilde Time, Camomil, and ſuch
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            like in the Earth, wherein they do but grow in the Tree, as they do in Pots,
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            though (perhaps) with ſome feeding from the Trees. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4644" xml:space="preserve">As it would be tryed
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            alſo with Shoots of Vines, and Roots of Red-Roſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4645" xml:space="preserve">for it may be they being
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            of a more Ligneous Nature, will incorporate with the Tree it ſelf.</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4646" xml:space="preserve"/>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4647" xml:space="preserve">It is an ordinary curioſity to form Trees and Shrubs (as Roſemary, Juni-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-03" xlink:href="note-0142-03a" xml:space="preserve">505.</note>
            per, and the like) into ſundry ſhapes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4648" xml:space="preserve">which is done by moulding them
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            within, and cutting them without. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4649" xml:space="preserve">But they are but lame things, being
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            too ſmall to keep Figure; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4650" xml:space="preserve">great Caſtles made of Trees upon Frames of
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            Timber, with Turrets and Arches, were anciently matters of magnifi-
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            cence.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4652" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt curioſities, I ſhall place Colouration, though it be ſome what
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0142-04" xlink:href="note-0142-04a" xml:space="preserve">506.</note>
            better; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4653" xml:space="preserve">for Beauty in Flowers is their pre-eminence. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4654" xml:space="preserve">It is obſerved by ſome,
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            that Gilly-Flowers, Sweet-Williams, Violess, that are coloured, if they be neg-
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            lected, and neither Watered, nor new Moulded, nor Tranſplanted, will
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            turn White. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4655" xml:space="preserve">And it is probable, that the White, with much culture, may
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            turn coloured, for this is certain, That the white colour cometh oſ ſcarcity
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            of Nouriſhment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4656" xml:space="preserve">except in Flowers that are onely white, and admit no
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            other colours.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4658" xml:space="preserve">It is good therefore to ſee what Natures do accompany what colours;
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            </s>
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            for by that you ſhall have light, how to induce colours, by producing
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            thoſe Natures. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4660" xml:space="preserve">Whites are more inodorate (for the moſt part) than Flowers
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            of the ſame kinde coloured; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4661" xml:space="preserve">as is found in ſingle White Violets, White
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            Roſes, White Gilly-Flowers, White Stock Gilly-Flowers, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4662" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4663" xml:space="preserve">We finde al-
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            ſo, that Bloſſoms of Trees that are White, are commonly inodorate; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4664" xml:space="preserve">as
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            Cherries, Pears, Plums, whereas thoſe of Apples, Crabs, Almonds, and
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            Peaches, are bluſhy, and ſmell ſweet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4665" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that the ſubſtance
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            that maketh the Flower, is of the thinneſt and fineſt of the Plant; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4666" xml:space="preserve">which alſo
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            maketh Flowers to be of ſo dainty Colours. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4667" xml:space="preserve">And if it be too ſparing and
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            thin, it attaineth no ſtrength of odor, except it be in ſuch Plants as are
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            very ſucculent; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4668" xml:space="preserve">whereby they need rather to be ſcanted in their nouriſh-
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            ment, than repleniſhed, to have them ſweet. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4669" xml:space="preserve">As we ſee in White Satyrion,
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            which is of a dainty ſmell; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4670" xml:space="preserve">and in Bean-flowers, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4671" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4672" xml:space="preserve">And again, if the
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            Plant be of Nature to put forth White Flowers onely, and thoſe not thin or
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            dry, they are commonly of rank and fulſome ſmell; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4673" xml:space="preserve">as May-Flowers and
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            White Lillies.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4675" xml:space="preserve">Contrariwiſe, in Berries, the White is commonly more delicate and
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            ſweet in taſte, than the Coloured; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4676" xml:space="preserve">as we ſee in white Grapes, in white
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            Raſpes, in white Strawberries, in white Currans, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4677" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4678" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is for </s>
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