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

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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4812" xml:space="preserve">Firſt, therefore you muſt make account, that if you will have one Plant
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              <note position="left" xlink:label="note-0146-01" xlink:href="note-0146-01a" xml:space="preserve">526.</note>
            change into another, you muſt have the Nouriſhment over rule the Seed:
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4813" xml:space="preserve">And therefore you are to practi@e it by Nouriſhments as contraty as may be,
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            to the Nature of the Herb; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4814" xml:space="preserve">ſonevertheleſs as the Herb may grow, and like-
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            wiſe with Seeds that are of the weakeſt ſort, and have leaſt vigor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4815" xml:space="preserve">You ſhall
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            do well therefore to take Marſh Herbs, and plant them upon tops of Hills
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            and Champaigns; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4816" xml:space="preserve">and ſuch Plants as require much moiſture, upon Sandy
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            and very dry grounds. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4817" xml:space="preserve">As for example, Marſh Mallows, and Sedge upon
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            Hills, Cucumber and Lettuce Seeds, and Coleworts upon a Sandy Plat; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4818" xml:space="preserve">ſo
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            contrariwiſe plant Buſhes, Heath, Ling, and Brakes upon a Wet or Marſh
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            Ground. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4819" xml:space="preserve">This I conceive alſo, that all Eſculent and Garden Herbs, ſet upon
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            the tops of Hills, will prove more Medicinal, though leſs Eſculent, than they
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            were before. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4820" xml:space="preserve">And it may be like wiſe, ſome Wilde Herbs you may make
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            Salet Herbs. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4821" xml:space="preserve">This is the firſt Rule for Tranſmutation of Plants.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4823" xml:space="preserve">The ſecond Rule ſhould be to bury ſome few Seeds of the Herb you
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            would change amongſt other Seeds; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4824" xml:space="preserve">and then you ſhall ſee whether the Juyce
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            of thoſe other Seeds do not ſo qualifie the Earth, as it will alter the Seed
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            whereupon you work. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4825" xml:space="preserve">As for example, Put Parſly. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4826" xml:space="preserve">ſeed amongſt Onion-ſeed,
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            or Lettuce-ſeed amongſt Parſly ſeed, or Baſil-ſeed amongſt Thyme-ſeed,
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            and ſee the change of taſte or otherwiſe. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4827" xml:space="preserve">But you ſhall do well to put the
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            Seed you would change into a little Linnen Cloth, that it mingle not with
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            the Foreign Seed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4829" xml:space="preserve">The third Rule ſhall be the making of ſome medly, or mixture of Earth,
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            with ſome other Plants bruiſed, or ſhaved, either in Leaf or Root: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4830" xml:space="preserve">As for ex-
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            ample make Earth, with a mixture of Colewort Leaves ſtamped, and ſet in
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            it Artichoaks, or Parſnips: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4831" xml:space="preserve">So take Earth made with Majoram, or Origannum,
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            or Wilde Thyme, bruiſed, or ſtamped, and ſet in it Fennel-ſeed, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4832" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4833" xml:space="preserve">In which
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            operation, the Proces of Nature ſtill will be, (as I conceive,) not that the Herb
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            you work upon, ſhould draw the Juyce of the Foreign Herb; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4834" xml:space="preserve">(for that
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            opinion we have formerly rejected) but there will be a new confection
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            of mould, which perhaps will alter the Seed, and yet not to the kinde of the
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            former Herb.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4836" xml:space="preserve">The fourth Rule ſhall be to mark what Herbs ſome Earths do put ſorth
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            of themſelves, and to take that Earth, and to Pot it, or to Veſſel it; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4837" xml:space="preserve">and into
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            that, ſet the Seed you would change: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4838" xml:space="preserve">As for Example, take from under
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            Walls, or the like; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4839" xml:space="preserve">where Nettles put forth in abundance, the Earth which
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            you ſhall there finde, without any String or Root of the Nettles; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4840" xml:space="preserve">and pot
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            that Earth, and ſet in it Stock-Gilly-flowers, or Wall-flowers, &</s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4841" xml:space="preserve">c. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4842" xml:space="preserve">Or ſow
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            in the Seeds of them, and ſee what the event will be; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4843" xml:space="preserve">or take Earth, that you
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            have prepared to put forth Muſhrooms of it ſelf, (where of you ſhall finde
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            ſome inſtances following,) and ſow it in Purſlane-ſeed, or Lettuce. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4844" xml:space="preserve">ſeed; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4845" xml:space="preserve">for
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            in theſe Experiments, it is likely enough, that the Earth being accuſtomed to
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            ſend forth one kinde of Nouriſhment, will alter the new Seed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4847" xml:space="preserve">The fifth Rule ſhall be, to make the Herb grow contrary to his nature, as
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            to make Ground Herbs riſe in height: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4848" xml:space="preserve">As for example. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4849" xml:space="preserve">Carry Camomile, or
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            Wilde Thyme, or the Green Strawberry, upon ſticks, as you do Hops upon
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            Poles, and ſee what the event will be.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s4851" xml:space="preserve">The ſixth Rule ſhall be to make Plants grow out of the Sun, or open
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            Air; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4852" xml:space="preserve">for that is a great mutation in Nature, and may induce a change in the
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            Seed: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4853" xml:space="preserve">As barrel up Earth, and ſow ſome Seed in it, and put in the bottom
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            of a Pond, or put it in ſome great hollow Tree; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s4854" xml:space="preserve">try alſo the </s>
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