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

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            creaſing the Luſt or Spirit of the Root: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4315" xml:space="preserve">Theſe things being more forcible
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            than ordinary compoſts.</s>
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          <p>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4317" xml:space="preserve">It is reported by one of the Ancients, that Artichoaks will be leſs prick-
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-01" xlink:href="note-0132-01a" xml:space="preserve">458.</note>
            ly, and more tender, if the Seeds have their tops dulled or grated off upon
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            a Stone.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4319" xml:space="preserve">Herbs will be tenderer, and fairer, if you take them out of Beds when
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-02" xlink:href="note-0132-02a" xml:space="preserve">459.</note>
            they are newly come up, and remove them into Pots with better Earth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4320" xml:space="preserve">The
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            remove from Bed to Bed was ſpoken of before; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4321" xml:space="preserve">but that was in ſeveral
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            years, this is upon the ſudden. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4322" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is the ſame with other removes,
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            ſormerly mentioned.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4324" xml:space="preserve">Coleworts are reported by one of the Ancients, to proſper exceedingly,
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0132-03" xlink:href="note-0132-03a" xml:space="preserve">460.</note>
            and to be better taſted, if they be ſometimes watred with Salt-water, and
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            much more with Water mixed with Nitre; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4325" xml:space="preserve">the Spirit of which is leſs Adu-
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            rent than Salt.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4327" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Cucumbers will prove more tender and dainty, if
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            their Seeds be ſteeped (little) in Milk; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4328" xml:space="preserve">the cauſe may be, for that the Seed
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            being mollified with the Milk, will be too weak to draw the groſſer Juyce of
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            the Earth, but onely the finer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4329" xml:space="preserve">The ſame Experiment may be made in Arti-
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            choaks, and other Seeds, when you would take away, either their Flaſhi-
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            neſs or Bitterneſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4330" xml:space="preserve">They ſpeak alſo, that the like effect followeth of ſteep-
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            ing in Water mixed with Honey; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4331" xml:space="preserve">but that ſeemeth to me not ſo probable,
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            becauſe Honey hath too quick a Spirit.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4333" xml:space="preserve">It is reported, That Cucumbers will be leſs Watry, and more Melon-
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            like, if in the Pit where you ſet them, you fill it (half way up) with Chaff, or
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            ſmall Sticks, and then power Earth upon them; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4334" xml:space="preserve">for Cucumbers, as it ſeemeth,
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            do extreamly affect moiſture, and over-drink themſelves; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4335" xml:space="preserve">which this Chaff,
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            or Chips forbiddeth. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4336" xml:space="preserve">Nay it is further reported, That if when a Cucumber
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            is grown, you ſet a Pot of water about five or ſix inches diſtance from it,
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            it will in Four and twenty hours ſhoot ſo much out as to touch the Pot;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4337" xml:space="preserve">which if it be true, it is an Experiment of an higher nature than belongeth
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            to this Title: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4338" xml:space="preserve">Forit diſcovereth Perception in Plants to move towards that
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            which ſhould help and comfort them, though it be at a diſtance. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4339" xml:space="preserve">The ancient
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            Tradition of the Vine is far more ſtrange: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4340" xml:space="preserve">It is, that if you ſet a ſtake, or
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            prop, ſome diſtance from it, it will grow that way, which is far ſtranger (as
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            is ſaid) than the other: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4341" xml:space="preserve">For that Water may work by a Sympathy of At-
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            traction: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4342" xml:space="preserve">But this of the Stake ſeemeth to be a reaſonable diſcourſe.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4344" xml:space="preserve">It hath been touched before, that Terebration of Trees doth make them
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            proſper better. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4345" xml:space="preserve">But it is found alſo, that it maketh the Fruit ſweeter, and
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            better. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4346" xml:space="preserve">The cauſe is, for that not withſtanding the Terebration, they may
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            receive Aliment ſufficient, and yet no more than they can well turn, and
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            diſgeſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4347" xml:space="preserve">and withal do ſweat out the courſeſt and unprofitableſt Juyce, even
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            as it is in Living Creatures; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4348" xml:space="preserve">which, by moderate feeding, and exerciſe, and
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            ſweat, attain the ſound eſt habit of Body.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4350" xml:space="preserve">As Terebration doth meliorate Fruit, ſo, upon the like reaſon, doth
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            Letting of Plants Blood; </s>
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            ter they be of
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            ſome growth, and thereby letting forth Gum or Tears, though this be not to
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            continue, as it is in Terebration, but at ſome Seaſons. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4352" xml:space="preserve">And it is reported,
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            that by
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            this artifice, Bitter Almonds have been turned into ſweet.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4354" xml:space="preserve">The Ancients for the Dulcorating of Fruit, do commend Swines dung
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            above all other Dung, which may be, becauſe of the moiſture of that Beaſt,
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            whereby the Excrement hath leſs Acrimony, for we ſee Swines and Pigs
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            Fleſh is the moiſteſt of fleſhes.</s>
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