378 The Colours of Plants. o L&V. $ 
other Part, which is not fo fufceptive, and hath been tin&ur’d already. 
All the ftrange varieties in Carnations, Tulips, and other Flowers am 
made this way. 
31. $. The other Rule is, To change the Soy/, or frequently to 
tranfplant from one Bed to another. By which means, the Plant, is as ) 
ie were, fuperimpregnated with feveral Tindures , which are prolifick 
of feveral Colours; which way is taken for Roots and Slips, 2 
32. $. The conlideration whereof, and of the foregoing Exper: 
ments, may direét us not only in changing the Bed, but alfo in com- 
pounding the Soy, as by mixing fach and fach Salts, or Bodies impreg- JE 
vated with fuch Salts, I fay by mixing thefe Bodies in fach a proper. —) 
tion, with the Soyl, as although they have no Colour in themfelves, yet 
may be effectual to produce a great variety of Colours in the Plants they 
nourifh 5 fupplying the Plants with fuch Tindures, as thall concur 
with the Aer, to ftrike or precipitate their Sulphur into fo many feve- 7 
ral Colours, after the manner above explicated : and fo to bring even 
Natures Art of Painting, in a great part, into our own power. 
