CENTURY IX. 93 



Experiment solitary touching exossation of fruits. 



854. We have partly touched before the means of 

 producing fruits without cores or stones. And this 

 we add further, that the cause must be abundance of 

 moisture ; for that the core and stone are made of a 

 dry sap : and we see that it i possible to make a tree 

 put forth only in blossom, without fruit ; as in cherries 

 with double flowers ; much more into fruit without 

 stone or cores. It is reported, that a scion of an apple, 

 grafted upon a colewort-stalk, sendeth forth a great 

 apple without a core. It is not unlikely that if the in 

 ward pith of a tree were taken out, so that the juice 

 came only by the bark, it would work the effect. For 

 it hath been observed that in pollards, if the water get 

 in on the top, and they become hollow, they put forth 

 the more. We add also, that it is delivered for certain 

 by some, that if the scion be grafted the small end 

 downwards, it will make fruit have little or no cores 

 and stones. 



Experiment solitary touching the melioration of tobacco. 



855. Tobacco is a thing of great price, if it be in 

 request : for an acre of it will be worth (as is affirmed) 

 two hundred pounds by the year towards charge. 1 

 The charge of making the ground and otherwise is 

 great, but nothing to the profit. But the English to 

 bacco hath small credit, as being too dull and earthy : 

 nay, the Virginian tobacco, though that be in a hotter 

 climate, can get no credit for the same cause : so that 



1 In France the average yield of a hectare of tobacco was, in 1841, 1185 

 kilogrammes (Boussingault, Economic Rurale, vol. i. p. 435.), which ia 

 about equivalent to 1058 pounds the acre. At this rate the price in Bacon s 

 time must have been about 3s. Qd. a pound. 



