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.

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[3.] LONDON: rinted by J. R. for William Lee, and are to be Sold by the Bookſellers of London. 1670.

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[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.

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[5.] TO THE READER

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[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.

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[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.

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[18.] THE LIFE OF THE Right Honourable FRANCIS BACON Baron of Verulam, Viſcount St. Alban.

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[19.] Et quod tentabam ſcribere, Verſus erat,

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[20.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century I.

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[21.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century II.

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[22.] NATURAL HISTORY Century III.

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[23.] Conſent of Viſibles and Audibles.

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[24.] Diſſent of Viſibles and Audibles.

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[25.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century IV.

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[26.] NATURAL HISTORY Century V.

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[27.] NATURAL HISTORY. Century VI.

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[28.] --Teneriſque meos incidere Amores Arboribus, creſcent illæ, creſcetis Amores.

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[29.] Grandia ſæpe quibus mandavimus Hordea Sulcis, Infœlix Lolium, & ſteriles dominatur Avenæ.

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[30.] NATURAL HISTORY Century VII.

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144110Natural Hiſtory; by neglecting, and not removing, prove ſingle. And the way to do it ſpeedily,
is to ſow or ſet Seeds, or Slips of Flowers; and as ſoon as they come up, to
remove them into new ground that is good: Enquire alſo, whether inocu-
lating oſ Flowers, (as Stock-Gilliflowers, Roſes, Musk-Roſes, & c.) doth
not make them double. There is a Cherry-Tree that hath double Bloſſoms,
but that Tree beareth no Fruit; and, it may be, that the ſame means which
applied to the Tree, doth extreamly accelerate the Sap to riſe and break
forth, would make the Tree ſpend it ſelf in Flowers, and thoſe to become
double, which were a great pleaſure to ſee, eſpecially in Apple-trees, Peach-
trees, and Almond-trees, that have Bloſſoms Bluſh coloured.

The making of Fruits without Core or Stone, is likewiſe a curioſity,
11514. and ſomewhat better; becauſe whatſoever maketh them ſo, is like to make
them more tender and delicate. If a Cions or Shoot fit to be ſet in the
Ground, have the Pith finely taken forth (and not altogether, but ſome of it
left, the better to ſave the life) it will bear a Fruit with little or no Core or
Stone. And the like is ſaid to be of dividing a quick Tree down to the Ground,
and taking out the Pith, and then binding it up again.

It is reported alſo, that a Citron grafted upon a Quince will have ſmall
22515. or no Seeds; and it is very probable, that any ſowre Fruit grafied upon a
Stock that beareth a ſweeter Fruit, may both make the Fruit ſweeter, and
more void of the harſh matter of Kernels or Seeds.

It is reported, that not onely the taking out of the Pith, but the ſtopping
33516. of the Juyce of the Pith from riſing in the midſt, and turning it to riſe on the
outſide, will make the Fruit without Core or Stone; as if you ſhould bore a
Tree clean thorow, and put a wedge in. It is true, there is ſome affinity be-
tween the Pith and the Kernel, becauſe they are both of a harſh ſubſtance,
and both placed in the midſt.

It is reported, that Trees watered perpetually with warm Water, will
44517. make a Fruit with little or no Core or Stone. And the rule is general, That
whatſoever will make a wilde Tree, a Garden Tree, will make a Garden Tree
to have leſs Core or Stone.

THe Rule is certain, That Plants for want of Culture, degenerate to be
55518.66Experiments
in Conſort,
touching the
Degenerating
of Plants, and
of the Tranſ-
mutation of
them, one into
another. baſer in the ſame kinde; and ſome times ſo far, as to change into another
kinde. 1. The ſtanding long, and not being removed, maketh them dege-
nerate. 2. Drought, unleſs the Earth of it ſelf be moiſt, doth the like. 3. So
doth removing into worſe Earth, or forbearing to compoſt the Earth; as we
ſee, that Water-Mint turneth into Field Mint, and the Colewort into Rape by
neglect, & c.

What ſoever Fruit uſeth to be ſet upon a Root, or a Slip, if it be ſown,
77519. will degenerate; Grapes ſown, Figs, Almonds, Pomegranate Kernels ſown,
make the Fruits degenerate, and become wilde. And again, moſt of thoſe
Fruits that uſe to be grafted, if they be ſet of Kernels, or Stones degenerate.
It is true, that Peaches (as hath been touched before) do better upon Stones
ſet, than upon grafting: And the rule of Exception ſhould ſeem to be this,
That whatſoever Plant requireth much moiſture, proſpereth better upon the
Stone or Kernel, than upon the Graft. For the Stock, though it giveth a finer
nouriſhment, yet it giveth a ſcanter, than the Earth at large.

Seeds, if they be very old, and yet have ſtrength enough to bring forth a
88520. Plant, make the Plant degenerate. And therefore skilful Gardiners make tryal
of the Seeds, before they buy them, whether they be good or no, by

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