N.^j^KirckerS Experiments concerning lnfithnt 

 examined. 



Kitcktf) a Learned man, the Pliny of his time, 

 after he hud reproved the faltities in Wtd^r^ Alexius % 

 and Porta, who had afferted a change of colours and 

 rare variety of flowers,by fteepmg thofe roots in juices 

 whofe eoleu s were delired, feems to me as much to 

 be blamed, in that he writes fo confidently of things 

 which are as much like Paradoxes, and equally glin- 

 faid by experience. 



He fays, that he doubts not, but has from experi- 

 ence thefe effects ; That a white Rofe, grafted upon a 

 red, will bring th.it Rofe we call Kofi Mundi, or a 

 flo ver both red and white. This I have often prov'd 

 falfe by mine own tryal : Thau a Gellimine grafted 

 on a Broom, will bring yellow flowers like thofe of 

 the Broom ; That I tryed, and could not make to 

 grow, fo far it was from bearing any Hdwers, v\ Kir- 

 cher: ars Magn. f. 13. C, 6. But that Jafmine upon 

 jafmine will grow and thrive, my own and others ex- 

 perience can atreft. 



The fame Doftor, in another Fook of his, Be 

 ■iJWagnete, where he has many good Iperiments a- 

 bout that Stone, yet as to his ^7^7/ wi!*-^, either 

 he is out, or there is greater difference be; w*xt the 

 C ountrey where he tryed his experiments, and Srg-> 

 land, then lean imagine; I have tiycd Mulberies 

 on Eeech, Quinces, Apples, Pears, Elms, Pop- 

 lars, and by grafting they would not take, yet he af- 

 firms they takeeafily ; and more, that Mulberies are 

 by conjunction w'ith white Poplars, made to beota 

 white kinde, and bear white Mulberies ; That Fears 



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