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fotfi'oihty of it in the vegetable t I have heard Mr; 

 Hoi? art and his Son often report it, and proffer to make 

 bath that theCrocus and Gladioluses likwife the Leu- 

 coium , and Hyacinths by a long (landing without re- 

 planting have in his garden chdftged from one kind to 

 the other : arid for lacisfa&itin about the curiofity in 

 the prefence of Mr.Bc^/f I tbolie up fome bulbs of the 

 verynumericall roots whereof the relation was made, 

 though the alteration was perfected before, where 

 we faw the dive-U'e bulbs growing as it were on the 

 fame f loo le, clofe together, but no bulb half of the 

 one kind , and the other half of the other: But the 

 change-time being part it was reafon we ftiould be- 

 leivethe report of good arciits in matters of their 

 own faculty. 



Mr. Wyench a skilful! , and indubious gardiner fof 

 fruit and kitching-plants told me that the hi\ year 

 there was a change betwixt the kinds of the Cole- 

 fio ver , and the cabbage. Others I know who as from 

 their experience molt confidently affirme that they 

 have prime-rofes of tbe milk white colour , the root 

 whereof before in another ground bare Oxelips : and 

 it is ufually beleived that divers (ingle flowers may 

 be changed into double by frequent tranfplantations^ 

 made into better grounds.I knev thofe that have had 

 the wood Ariemonies , and Colchiums double, who 

 affirme that they took them into their garden wild ± 

 and Tingle , and that that change was made by the 

 foyle, and culture of the place. 



For the animall Kingdome the inftances of trans- 

 mutation are in filkwormes , cadiz , and all caterpil- 

 lars, which after a long ileep from the reptile tunic 

 into the volatile kind. 



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