170 Cyrus-Garden, Or 



obvert their (harper fides unto the cur 

 rent in ditches, 



But whether plants which float upon 

 the furfacc of the water, be for the 

 mod part of cooling qualities, tbofe 

 which (hoot above it of heating ver- 

 tues, and why > whether Strgtff* for 

 many miles floating upon the Weftern 

 Ocean, or Sea-lettuce, and Phafganium 

 at the bottome of our Seas, make good 

 the like qualities ? Why Fenny waters 

 afford the hotteft and fwecteft plants, 

 as Calamus > Cyperus, and Crowfoot, 

 and mudd ca ft out of ditches moft na 

 turally produceth Arfmart AVhy plants 

 fo greedy of water fo little regard oyl ? 

 Why fince many feeds contain much 

 oy Ic within them , they endure it not 

 well without, either in their growth or 

 produftion? Why fince Seeds (hoot 

 commonly under ground, and out of 

 the ayrc, thole which are let fall in 

 ihallo\v glades, upon the furface of the 

 water, will fooner fprout then thofe at 

 the bottome ? And if the water be co 

 vered with oy le, thofe at the bottome 

 will hardly fprout at all, we have noc 



room 



