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

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          <head xml:id="echoid-head37" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL
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          HISTORY</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head38" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century V.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3958" xml:space="preserve">WE will now enquire of Plants or Vegetables; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3959" xml:space="preserve">and we ſhall
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0123-01" xlink:href="note-0123-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching the
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              Acceleration
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              of Germinati-
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              on.</note>
            do it with diligence. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3960" xml:space="preserve">They are the principal part of
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            the Third days Work; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3961" xml:space="preserve">they are the firſt Producat, which
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            is the word of Animation, for the other words are but
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            the words of Eſſence; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3962" xml:space="preserve">and they are of excellent and
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            generaluſe, For Food, Medicine, and a number of Medi-
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            cinal Arts.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3964" xml:space="preserve">There were ſown in a Bed, Turnip ſeed, Raddiſh-ſeed, Wheat, Cucumber-ſeed,
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            and Peaſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3965" xml:space="preserve">The Bed we call a Hot-bed, and the manner of it is this. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3966" xml:space="preserve">There
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            was taken Horſe-dung, old, and well rotted; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3967" xml:space="preserve">this was laid upon a Bank
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            half a foot high, and ſupported round about with Planks; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3968" xml:space="preserve">and upon the
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            top was caſt ſifred Earth, ſome two fingers deep; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3969" xml:space="preserve">and then the Seed
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            ſprinkled upon it, having been ſteeped all night in Water mixed with Cow-
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            dung. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3970" xml:space="preserve">The Turnip-ſeed, and the VVneat, came up half an inch above ground,
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            within two days after, without any watering; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3971" xml:space="preserve">the reſt the third day. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3972" xml:space="preserve">The
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            Experiment was made in October, and (it may be) in the Spring, the Accele-
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            rating would have been the ſpeedier. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3973" xml:space="preserve">This is a noble Experiment; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3974" xml:space="preserve">for,
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            without this help, they would have been four times as long in coming up.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3975" xml:space="preserve">But there doth not occur to me, at this preſent, any uſe thereof, for pro-
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            fit, except it ſhould be for Sowing of Peaſe, which have their price very
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            much increaſed by the early coming. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s3976" xml:space="preserve">It may be tryed alſo with Cher-
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            ries, Strawberries, and other Fruit which are deareſt, when they come
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            early.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s3978" xml:space="preserve">There was Wheat ſteeped in Water mixed with Cow dung, other in
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            Water mixed with Horſe-dung, other in Water mixed with </s>
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