1 04 Gleanings in Old Garden Literature^ 



come by. in the loose Earth. It may bee, that Oft 

 Regrafting of the same Cions, may likewise make Fruit 

 greater ; As if you take a Cions, and graft it upon a 

 Stocke the first yeare ; And then cut it off, and graft it 

 upon another Stock the second yeare ; and so for a third ; 

 Or fourth yeare; And then let it rest, it will yeeld after- 

 ward, when it beareth, the greater Fruit." 



Naturally Bacon is more or less frequently 

 found basing his conclusions on imperfect 

 information or data ; but at all events he dis- 

 carded most of the vulgar errors of his time 

 in relation to philosophical and scientific 

 investigations. He says : 



"There are many Ancient and Received Traditions 

 and Observations, touching the Sympathy and Antipathy 

 of Plants; For that some will thrive best growing neare 

 others ; which they impute to Sympathy: And some 

 worse ; w* they impute to Antipathy. But these 

 are Idle and Ignorant Conceits ; And forsake the true 

 Indication of the Causes; as the most Part of Experi- 

 ments, that concerne Sympathies and Antipathies doe. 

 For as to Plants, neither is there any such Secret Friend- 

 ship, or Hatred, as they imagine ; And if we should be 

 content to call it Sympathy, and Antipathy, it is utterly 

 mistaken ; For then- Sympathy is an Antipathy, and 

 their Antipathy is a Sympathy : For it is thus ; Whereso- 

 ever one Plant draweth such a particular Juyce out of 



