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

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[2.] SYLVA SYLVARUM, OR, A Natural Hiſtory, IN TEN CENTURIES. Whereunto is newly added, The Hiſtory Natural and Experimental of LIFE and DEATH, or of the Prolongation of LIFE. Publiſhed after the Authors Death, By William Rawley, Doctorin Divinity, One of His Majeſties Chaplains. Whereunto is added Articles of Enquiry, touch-ing Metals and Minerals. And the New Atlantis. Written by the Right Honorable FRANCIS Lord Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. The Ninth and Last Edition, With an Alphabetical Table of the Principal Things contained in the Ten Centuries.
[3.] LONDON: rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.
[4.] TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.
[5.] TO THE READER
[6.] A TABLE OF THE EXPERIMENTS. Century I.
[7.] Century II.
[8.] Century III.
[9.] Century IV.
[10.] Century V.
[11.] Century VI.
[12.] Century VII.
[13.] Century VIII.
[14.] Century IX.
[15.] Century X.
[16.] THE LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban. BY WILLIAM RAWLEY. D D. His Lordſhips firſt and laſt Chaplain, and of late his Majeſties Chaplain in Ordinary.
[17.] LONDON, Printed by S. G. & E. G. for William Lee, and are to be ſold at the ſign of the Turks-Head in Fleet ſtreet, over againſt Fetter-Lane, 1670.
[18.] THE LIFE OF THE Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.
[19.] Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,
[20.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century I.
[21.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century II.
[22.] NATURAL HISTORY Century III.
[23.] Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[24.] Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.
[25.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century IV.
[26.] NATURAL HISTORY Century V.
[27.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century VI.
[28.] --Teneriſque meos incidere Amores Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.
[29.] Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.
[30.] NATURAL HISTORY Century VII.
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head39" xml:space="preserve">NATURAL
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          HISTORY.</head>
          <head xml:id="echoid-head40" style="it" xml:space="preserve">Century VI.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4611" xml:space="preserve">OUr Experiments we take care to be (as we have often
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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0141-01" xlink:href="note-0141-01a" xml:space="preserve">Experiments
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              in Conſort,
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              touching
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              Curioſities
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              about Fruits
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              and Plants.</note>
            ſaid,) either Experimenta Fractifera, or Lucifera; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4612" xml:space="preserve">either
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            of Uſe, or of Diſcovery: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4613" xml:space="preserve">For we hate Impoſtures,
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            and deſpiſe Curioſities. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4614" xml:space="preserve">Yet becauſe we muſt apply
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            our ſelves ſome what to others, we will ſet down ſome
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            Curioſities touching Plants.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4616" xml:space="preserve">It is a Curioſity to have ſeveral Fruits upon one Tree; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4617" xml:space="preserve">and the more,
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            when ſome of them come early, and ſome come late: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4618" xml:space="preserve">So that you may
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            have, upon the ſame Tree, ripe Fruits all Summer. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4619" xml:space="preserve">This is eaſily done by
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            Grafting of ſeveral Cions upon ſeveral Boughs of a Stock, in a good ground,
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            plentifully fed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4620" xml:space="preserve">So you may have all kindes of Cherries, and all kindes of
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            Plumbs, and Peaches, and Apricots upon one Tree: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4621" xml:space="preserve">But, I conceive the
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            Diverſity of Fruits muſt be ſuch, as will graft upon the ſame Stock. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4622" xml:space="preserve">And
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            therefore, I doubt, whether you can have Apples, or Pears, or Orenges,
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            upon the ſanie Stock, upon which you graft Plumbs.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4624" xml:space="preserve">It is a Curioſity to have Fruits of divers Shapes and Figures. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4625" xml:space="preserve">This is
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            eaſily performed by Moulding them, when the Fruit is young, with Moulds
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            of Earth or Wood. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4626" xml:space="preserve">So you may have Cucumbers, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4627" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4628" xml:space="preserve">as long as a
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            Cane, or as round as a Sphere, or formed like a Croſs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4629" xml:space="preserve">You may have
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            alſo Apples in the form of Pears or Lemmons. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4630" xml:space="preserve">You may have alſo Fruit
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            in more accurate Figures; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4631" xml:space="preserve">as we ſaid of Men, Beaſts, or Birds, according
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            as you make the Moulds, where in you muſt underſtand, that you make
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            the Mould big enough to contain the whole Fruit, when it is grown to the
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            greateſt; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4632" xml:space="preserve">for elſe you will choak the ſpreding of the Fruit, which other-
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            wiſe would ſpred it ſelf, and fill the Concave, and ſo be turned into the ſhape
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            deſired; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4633" xml:space="preserve">as it is in Mould-works of Liquid things. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4634" xml:space="preserve">Some doubt may be </s>
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