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| the firft uniting, they be often watred ; rie a helpeth to Union: 
| And itis prefcribed alfo tobinde the Bud, as foon as it cometh forth,as well 
as the Stock, artheleaft foratime. : ‘ 
_. They report, that divers Sceds put into a Clout, and laid iri Earth well 478. 
dunged, will put up Planscontiguous; which (afterwards) beingbound in, 
‘their Shoots willincorpcrate. The like is faid of Kernels put into a Bottle, 
| with anarrow mouth, filled with Earth: ¥ ; 2 
|. _Itis reported, thatyoung Trees of feveral kindes fet contiguous with- 479: 
| outany binding, and very often watred in a fruitful ground, withthe very 
| luxuryof the Trees, will incorporate and growtogether. _Which feemeth 
| tome the likelieft means that hath been propounded ; for that the binding 
| doth hinder the natural fwelling of the Tree; which, while itisin motion; 
| doth better unite. 
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ie ar¢ mahy ancient and received Traditions and Obfervations, ontatk 
ft touching the Sympathy and ~Antipathy.of Plams ;. for that fome will rouchingie ; 
thrive beft growing nearothers, which theyimpute to Sympathy; and fome enapay of 
| worle whichthey impute to Antipathy. But thefe arcidle and ignorant con= | Plants. 
ceits, and forfake the truc indication of the caufes ; asthe moftpart of Ex- 
‘périmems, that concern Sympathies and Antipathies do; Forasto Plants, netther 
jis there any fuch fecret Friendfhip, or Hatred, as they imagine. And 
Jif we fhouldbe content to call it Sympathy and Antipathy,icis utterly miftaken ; 
for their Sympathy is an Antipathy, and their Antipathy isa Spmpatiy : Forit is 
|thus, wherefoever one Plans draweth fuch a particular juyce out of the 
| Earth, asitqualifieth the Earth, fo as that Juyce which remaineth is fit for | 
q the other Plant, there the Neighborhood doth good, becaufe the nourifh- 
| ments are contraty, or feveral: But where two Plants draw (much) the 
|) ibe Juyce, there thie Neighborhood hurteth; for the one deceiveth the 
| other. dl 
|) Firft, therefore, all Plans that do draw much nourifhment fromttie 486. 
|Earth, and fo foakthe Earth, and exhauft ir, hurt all things that grow by 
|them ; as great Trees, (efpecially A/hes) and fuch Trees; as {pred their 
{Roots near the top of the ground. Sothe Glewsrtis not an eneniy (though | 
{that wereanciently received) to the Vine onely; butit isan enemy to any 
other Plant, becaufe it draweth ftrongly the fatteft Juyce of the Earth: 
| And if itbetrue, that the Hine, whenit creepeth near the Coleworr, will turn 
Jaway: Jhis may be, becaufe there it findeth worfe nourifhment; for 
though the Root be where. it was; yet (Edoubt) the Plant will bend as it 
} nourifheth. — ! ? 
Where Plants are of feveral Natures; and draw feveral Juyces out of }  491« 
the Earth, there\as hath been faid) the one fetby the other helpeth: Asit | 
is fet down by divers of the Ancients, that Rew doth profper much, and be- | 
cometh ftronger; if it befet bya Pig-Tree: Which (we conceive) is caufed 
}not by reaforof Friendfhip, but by Extraction of contrary Juyces; the | 
one drawing Juyce fitto relult {weet, the other bitter. So they have fer down 
|likewife,that a Rofefet by Garlickis (weeter s which likewife may be,becaufe 
|the more Fetide Juyce of the Earth goeth into the Garlick, and the more 
oderate into the Rofe. , Mitet:? | | 
This we fee manifeftly, Thatthere be certain Gurn+Flowers which come | 4:82. 
Hfeldom or never in other places, unlefs they be fet; but oncly amongtt | 
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