perience I have proved that plants being in a ctofe 

 roome, brought up from feeds in pot -, or ocherwife, 

 the leaves and ftalks prove to be white,o: pale, & not 

 green , which is according to the Lord bacons expe- 

 riment , who Q nU %* £xj. 47. fetting a Standard 

 Damask- Role-Tree &c. in an earthen pan of water, 

 where bearing leaves in the winter , in a chamber 

 where no fire was , the leaves were found (as his 

 LordChip relates) more pale and light coloured:, then 

 leaves life to be.abro.id ; which palerietTe, I fuppofa 

 to be greater or ietfe,proportionabiy to the freftiaefie 

 and freeneffe of the aire that the plant en joyes,Gratfe 

 will likewise change its colour , it by any weighty bo- 

 dy,or other lying upon it in the field,it be kept from 

 the aire : The truth is* ail plants have peculiar de- 

 light in the aire , which I have proved by this Expe- 

 riment; I have taken young feed lings in a pot,and put 

 them in a window where there was a quarry out , the 

 feedling would immediately leave its upright growth, 

 and direct its body ftraight to the hole,and fo become 

 almoft flat and Ievell a,ith the earth in the pot : Then 

 turning the pot fo., that the inclination of the ftalk 

 might be from the hole , the plant has then crook' t it 

 felf in form of a horn, or the letter C. to the aire a- 

 pain. I pon the Second turn of the pot> the upper 

 horn being placed from the aire, the plant would,with 

 its upper part, return to the open place, and leave the 

 ftalk now in the form of an S» Nay,fometimes I have 

 bid perfons tell me, which way they would have fuch 

 a plant gro>v ; they have marked the place in the 

 brime of the Pot,that mark I have turned to the hole 

 in the window, by which means the plant without 

 any force , and that in not many houres fpace , hath 

 inclined its (ialkes to the rt\ark made fl 



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