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

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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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              <note position="right" xlink:label="note-0141-03" xlink:href="note-0141-03a" xml:space="preserve">502.</note>
            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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