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

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            the coloured are more juyced, and courſer juyced; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4679" xml:space="preserve">and therefore not ſo
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            well and equally concocted, but the white are better proportioned to the
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            diſgeſtion of the Plant.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4681" xml:space="preserve">Butin Fruits. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4682" xml:space="preserve">the white commonly is meaner, as in Pear-Plumbs, Damo-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0143-01" xlink:href="note-0143-01a" xml:space="preserve">509.</note>
            ſins, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4683" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4684" xml:space="preserve">and the choiceſt Plumbs are black; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4685" xml:space="preserve">the Mulberry, (which though
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            they call it a Berry, is a Fruit) is better the Black, than the White. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4686" xml:space="preserve">The
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            Harveſt White-Plumb, is a baſe Plumb, and the Verdoccio and White Date-
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            Plumb, are no very good Plumbs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4687" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that they are all
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            over-watry: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4688" xml:space="preserve">Where as an higher Concoction is required for ſweetneſs, or
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            pleaſure of taſte; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4689" xml:space="preserve">and therefore all your dainty Plumbs, are a little dry,
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            and come from the Stone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4690" xml:space="preserve">as the Muskle-Plumb, the Damoſin-Plumb, the
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            Peach, the Apricot, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4691" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4692" xml:space="preserve">Yet ſome Fruits which grow not to be Black,
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            are of the Nature of Berries, ſweeteſtſuch as are paler, as the Cæur-Cherry,
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            which inclineth more to White, is ſweeter than the Red; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4693" xml:space="preserve">but the Egriot is
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            more ſowre.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4695" xml:space="preserve">Take Gilliſtowers Seed, of one kinde of Gilliflowers (as of the Clove-Gilli-
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0143-02" xlink:href="note-0143-02a" xml:space="preserve">510.</note>
            flower which is the moſt common) and ſow it, and there will come up
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            Gilliflowers, ſome of one colour, and ſome of another, caſually, as the
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            Seed meeteth with nouriſhment in the Earth: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4696" xml:space="preserve">So that the Gardiners finde,
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            that they may have two or three Roots amongſt an hundred that are rare,
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            and of great price, as Purple Carnation of ſeveral ſtripes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4697" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is (no
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            doubt) that in Earth, though it be contiguous, and in one Bed there are very
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            ſeveral Juyces; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4698" xml:space="preserve">and as the Seed doth caſually meetwith them, ſo it cometh
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            forth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4699" xml:space="preserve">And it is noted eſpecially, that thoſe which do come up Purple, do
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            always come up ſingle; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4700" xml:space="preserve">the Juyce, as it ſeemeth, not being able to ſuffice a
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            ſucculent colour, and a double Leaf. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4701" xml:space="preserve">This Experiment of ſeveral colours,
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            coming up from one Seed, would be tryed alſo in Larks-foot, Monk-hood,
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            Poppy, and Hollioak.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4703" xml:space="preserve">Few Fruits are coloured Red within; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4704" xml:space="preserve">the Queen-Apple is, and another
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            Apple, called the Roſe-Apple; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4705" xml:space="preserve">Mulberries likewiſe, and Grapes, though moſt to-
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            ward the skin. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4706" xml:space="preserve">There is a Peach alſo, that hath a circle of Red to wards the
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            ſtone; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4707" xml:space="preserve">and the Fgriot-Cherry is ſomewhat Red within: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4708" xml:space="preserve">But no Pear, nor
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            Warden, nor Plumb, nor Apricot, although they have (many times) Red
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            ſides, are coloured Red within. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4709" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe may be enquired.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4711" xml:space="preserve">The general colour of Planis is Green, which is a colour that no Flower
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            is of. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4712" xml:space="preserve">There is a greeniſh Prime-Roſe, but it is pale, and ſcarce a green; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4713" xml:space="preserve">the
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            Leaves of ſome Trees turn a little Murrey or Reddiſh, and they be com-
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            monly young Leaves that do ſo; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4714" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Oaks and Vines. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4715" xml:space="preserve">And Haſle-
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            Leaves rot into a Yellow; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4716" xml:space="preserve">and ſome Hollies had part of their Leaves Yellow,
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            that are (to all ſeeming) as freſh and ſhining as the Green. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4717" xml:space="preserve">I ſuppoſe alſo,
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            that Yellow is a leſs ſucculent colour than Green, and a degree nearer
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            White. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4718" xml:space="preserve">For it hath been noted, that thoſe Yellow Leaves of Holly, ſtand
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            ever to ward the North or North-Eaſt. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4719" xml:space="preserve">Some Roots are Yellow, as Carrets;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4720" xml:space="preserve">and ſome Planis, Blood-red, Stalk and Leaf, and all; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4721" xml:space="preserve">as Amaranthus. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4722" xml:space="preserve">Some
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            Herbs incline to Purple and Red; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4723" xml:space="preserve">as a kinde of Sage doth, and a kinde of
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            Mint, and Roſa Solis, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4724" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4725" xml:space="preserve">And ſome have White Leaves, as another kinde
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            of Sage, and another kinde of Mint: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4726" xml:space="preserve">But Azure and a fair Purple are
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            never found in Leaves. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4727" xml:space="preserve">This ſheweth, that Flowers are made of a refined
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            Juyce of the Earth, and ſo are Fruits, but Leaves of a more courſe and
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            common.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4729" xml:space="preserve">It is a curioſity alſo to make Flowers double, which is effected by often
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            removing them into new Earth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4730" xml:space="preserve">as on the contrary part, double </s>
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