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

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            three or four years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9321" xml:space="preserve">as the Violet, Straw-berry, Burnet, Prim-roſe, and Sorrel. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9322" xml:space="preserve">But Borage
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            and Bugloſ@, which ſeem ſo alike when they are alive, differ in their deaths; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9323" xml:space="preserve">for Borage
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            will laſt but one year, Bugloſs will laſt more.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9325" xml:space="preserve">But many hot Herbs bear their age and years better; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9326" xml:space="preserve">Hyßop, Thyme, Savory, Pot-mar-
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            joram, Balm, Wormwood, Germander, Sage, and the like. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9327" xml:space="preserve">Fennel dies yearly in the ſtalk,
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            buds again from the root: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9328" xml:space="preserve">but Pulſe and Sweet-marjoram can better endure age than
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            winter; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9329" xml:space="preserve">for being ſet in a very warm place and wel-fenced, they will live more than
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            one year. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9330" xml:space="preserve">It is known, that a knot of H@ſſop twice a year ſhorn hath continued forty
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            years.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9332" xml:space="preserve">Buſhes and Shrubs live threeſcore years, and ſome double as much. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9333" xml:space="preserve">A Vine may at-
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            tain to threeſcore years, and continue fruitful in the old age. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9334" xml:space="preserve">Roſe-mary well placed
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            will come alſo to threeſcore years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9335" xml:space="preserve">but white Thorn and Ivy endure above an hundred
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            years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9336" xml:space="preserve">As for the Bramble, the age thereof is not certainly known, becauſe bowing
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            the head to the ground it gets new roots, ſo as you cannot diſtinguiſh the old from
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            the new.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9338" xml:space="preserve">Amongſt great Trees the longeſt livers are the Oak, the Holm, Wild aſh, the Elm,
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            the Beech-tree, the Cheſ-nut, the Plane-tree, Ficus Ruminalis, the Lote tree, the wild-
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            olive, the Palm-tree and the Mulberry-tree, Of theſe, ſome have come to the age of
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            eight hundred years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9339" xml:space="preserve">but the leaſt livers of them do attain to two hundred.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9341" xml:space="preserve">But Trees Odorate, or that have ſweet woods, and Trees Rozennie, laſt longer in their
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            Woods or Timber than thoſe above-ſaid, but they are not ſo long-liv’d; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9342" xml:space="preserve">as the Cypreſs-
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            tree, Maple, Pine, Box, Juniper. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9343" xml:space="preserve">The Cedar being born out by the vaftneſs of his body,
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            lives well-near as long as the former.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9345" xml:space="preserve">The Aſh, fertile and forward in bearing, reacheth to an hundred years and ſomewhat
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            better; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9346" xml:space="preserve">which alſo the Birch, Maple, and Sirvice-tree ſometimes do: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9347" xml:space="preserve">but the
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            Poplar, Lime-tree, Willow, and that which they call the Sycomore, and walnut-tree, live
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            not ſolong.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9349" xml:space="preserve">The Apple-tree, Pear-tree, Plum-tree, Pomegranate-tree, Citron-tree, Medlar-tree,
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            Black cherry-tree, Cherry-tree, may attain to fifty or ſixty years; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9350" xml:space="preserve">eſpecially if they be
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            cleanſed from the Moſs wherewith ſome of them are cloathed.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9352" xml:space="preserve">Generally, greatneſs of body in trees, if other things be equal, hath ſome congruity
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            with length of life; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9353" xml:space="preserve">ſo hath hardneſs of ſubſtance: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9354" xml:space="preserve">and trees bearing Maſt or Nuts are
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            commonly longer livers than trees bearing Fruit or Berries: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9355" xml:space="preserve">like wiſe trees putting forth
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            their leaves late, and ſhedding them late again, live longer than thoſe that are early
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            either in leaves or fruit: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9356" xml:space="preserve">the like is of wild-trees in compariſon of Orchard-trees And
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            laſtly, in the ſame kind, trees that bear a ſowr fruit out-live thoſe that bear a ſweet
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            fruit.</s>
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          <head xml:id="echoid-head71" style="it" xml:space="preserve">An Obſervation.</head>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s9358" xml:space="preserve">ARiſtotle noted well the difference between Plants and living Creatures, in reſpect of
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            their Nouriſhment and Reparation: </s>
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            are confined within certain bounds, and that after they be come to their full growth they
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            are continued and preſerved by Nouriſhment, but they put forth nothing new except Hair
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            and Nails, whish are counted for no better than Excrements; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9360" xml:space="preserve">ſo as the juice of living
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            creatures muſt of neceſſity ſooner wax old: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9361" xml:space="preserve">but in Trees, which put forth yearly new boughs,
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            new ſhoots, new leaves, and new fruits, it comes to paſs that all theſe parts in Trees are
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            once a year young and renewed. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9362" xml:space="preserve">Now it being ſo, that whatſoever is freſh and young
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            draws the Nouriſhment more lively and chearfully to it than that which is decayed andold,
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            it happens withall, that the ſtock and body of the tree, through which the ſap paſſeth to the
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            branches, is refreſhed and cheared with a more bountiful and vigorous nouriſh ment in the
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            paſſage than otherwiſe it would have been. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s9363" xml:space="preserve">And this appears manifest (though Ariſtotle
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            noted it not, neither hath be expreſſed theſe things ſo clearly and perſpicuouſly) in Hedges,
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            Copſes, and Pollards, when the plaſhing, ſhedding, or lopping comforteth the old ſtem or
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            ſtock, and maketh it more flouriſhing and longer-liv’d.</s>
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