Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries
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            of Seeds in the bottoms of Caves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4855" xml:space="preserve">and Pot
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            s with Seeds ſown, hanged
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            up in Wells, ſome diſtance from the Water, and ſee what the event
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            will be.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4857" xml:space="preserve">IT is certain, that Timber-Trees in Coppice Woods, grow more upright, and
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            more free from under Boughs, than thoſe that ſtand in the Fields. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4858" xml:space="preserve">The
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Procerity, and
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              Lowneſs, and
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              Artificial
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              Dwarfing of
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              Trees.</note>
            cauſe whereof is, for that Plants have a natural motion to get to the
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            Sun: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4859" xml:space="preserve">and beſides, they are not glutted with too much nouriſhment;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4860" xml:space="preserve">for that the Coppice ſhareth with them, and Repletion ever hindreth
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            ſtature. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4861" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly, they are kept warm, and that ever in Plants helpeth
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            mounting.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4863" xml:space="preserve">Trees that are of themſelves full of Heat, (which heat appeareth by
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            their in flamable Gums) as Firrs, and Pines, mount of themſelves in heighth
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            without Side-boughs, till they come towards the top. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4864" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is partly
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            heat, and partly tenuity of Juyce; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4865" xml:space="preserve">both which ſend the Sap upwards. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4866" xml:space="preserve">As for
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            Juniper, it is but a Shrub, and groweth not big enough in Body to maintain a
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            tall Tree.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4868" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, that a good ſtrong Canvas, ſpred over a Tree graſt-
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            ed low, ſoon after it putteth forth, will dwarf it, and make it ſpred.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4869" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is plain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4870" xml:space="preserve">for that all things that grow, will grow as they finde
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            room.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4872" xml:space="preserve">Trees are generally ſet of Roots or Kernels; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4873" xml:space="preserve">but if you ſet them of Slips,
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            (as of ſome Trees you may, by name the Mulberry) ſome of the Slips will
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            take; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4874" xml:space="preserve">and thoſe that take, (as is reported) will be Dwarf-trees The cauſe
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            is, for that a Slip draweth nouriſhment more weakly, than either a Root or
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            Kernel.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4876" xml:space="preserve">All Plants that put forth their Sap haſtily, havetheir Bodies not propor-
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            tionable to their length, and therefore they are Winders and Creepers; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4877" xml:space="preserve">as
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            Ivy, Briony, Hops, Woodbine: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4878" xml:space="preserve">Whereas Dwarfing requiteth a ſlow putting
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            forth, and leſs vigor of mounting.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4880" xml:space="preserve">THe Scripture ſaith, That Solomon wrote a Natural Hiſtory, from the
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Rudiments of
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              Plants, and of
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              the Excreſcen-
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              ces of Plants,
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              or Super-
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              Plants.</note>
            Cedar of Libanus, to the Moß growing upon the Wall; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4881" xml:space="preserve">for ſo the beſt
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            Tranſlations have it. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4882" xml:space="preserve">And it is true, that Moß is but the Rudiment of a Plant, and
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            (as it were) the Mould of Earth or Bark.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4884" xml:space="preserve">Moß groweth chiefly upon Ridges of Houſes, tiled or thatched, and
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            upon the Creſts of Walls, and that Moſs is of a lightſome and pleaſant
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            Green. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4885" xml:space="preserve">The growing upon Slopes is cauſed for that Moſs, as on the
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            one ſide it cometh of Moiſture and Water, ſo on the other ſide the
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            Water muſt but ſlide, and not ſtand or pool. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4886" xml:space="preserve">And the growing upon
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            Tiles, or Walls, &</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4888" xml:space="preserve">is cauſed, for that thoſe dried Earths, having not
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            moiſture ſufficient to put forth a Plant, do practice Germination by put-
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            ting forth Moſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4889" xml:space="preserve">though when by age, or otherwiſe, they grow to re-
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            lent and reſolve, they ſometimes put forth Plants, as Wall flowers.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4890" xml:space="preserve">And almoſt all Mofs hath here and there little Stalks, beſides the low
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            Thrum.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4892" xml:space="preserve">Moß groweth upon Alleys, eſpecially ſuch as lye cold, and upon the
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            North; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4893" xml:space="preserve">as in divers Tarraſes. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4894" xml:space="preserve">And again, if they be much trodden; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4895" xml:space="preserve">or if
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            they were at the firſt gravelled: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4896" xml:space="preserve">For whereſoever Plants are kept down, the
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            Earth putteth forth Moſs.</s>
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