pa See a ee 
Natural Hiftory ; 
ceived, that the keeping of the Sun fromthe Fruit, may hurt it: But ther 
isordinary experience of Fruitthatgrowethcovered. Querealfo, whether 
fome fmall holes may not be made inthe Wood, to let in the Sun. And note, | 
that it were beft to make the Moulds partible, glued, or cemented togethe x 
thatyou may open them when you take out the Fruit. Ne 
It is a curiofity to have /n(criprions or Engravings, in Fruit or Trees. This} 
| is eafily performed, by writing with a Needle, or Bodkin, or Knife, or the like, 
when the Fruit or Trees are young ; foras they grow, fo the Letters will 
grow more large, and graphical. | a 
Tenerifyue meos incidere Amores ; 
cA rboribus, crefcentille, cre{cetis Amores. . 
You may have Trees apparelled with Flowersor Herbs by boring holés | 
in the Bodies of them, and putting into them Earth holpen with Muck,and | 
fetting Seeds or Slips, of Violets, Strawberries, Wilde Time, Camomil, and {uch | 
like in the Earth, wherein they do butgrow inthe Tree, 4s they do in Pots, | 
though (perhaps) withfome feeding from the Trees. As it would be tryed 
alfo with Shoots of Vines, and Roots of Red-Rofes ; for it may be, they being 
of amore Ligneous Nature, will incorporate with the Treeit felf.. — 
It is an ordinary curiofityto form Trees and Shrubs (as Rofemary, Funi- | 
per, and the like) into fundry fhapes ; which is done by moulding them } 
within, and cutting them without. But they are butlame things, being } 
too {mall to keep Figure ; great Caftles made of Trees upon Frames of } 
Timber, with Turrets and Arches, were anciently matters of magnifi- 
cence. ed ; : a 
Amongft curiofities, I fhall place Colouration, though it be fomewhat } 
better; for Beauty in Flowersis their pre-eminence: It is obferved by fome, | 
that Gilly- Flowers, Sweet-Williams, Violets, that are coloured, if theybe neg- | 
lected, and neither Watered, nor new Moulded, nor Tranfplanted, will | 
turn White. And itis probable, that thoWhite, with much culeure, may | 
turn coloured; for this is certain, That the whitecolour cometh of fcarcity ; 
of Nourifhment; except in Flowers that are onely white, and admit no | 
other colours. aR : Eat | 
It is good therefore to fee what Natures do accompany what colours ; | 
for by thae you fhall have light, how to induce colours, by producing 
thofe Natures. Whites are more inodorate (for the moft part) than Flowers | 
of the famekinde coloured ; as is found in fingle White Violets, White | 
Rofes, White Gilly-Flowers, White Stock-Gilly-Flowers, &c. We finde a 1- 1 
fo, that Blofloms of Trees that are White, are commonly inodorate ; as} 
Cherries, Pears, Plums, wheteas thofe of Apples, Crabs, Almonds, and }) 
Peaches, are blufhy, and {mell fweet. The caufeis, for that the fubftance 
that maketh the Flower, isof the thinneftand finelt of the Plant ; whichallo 
maketh Flowers to be of fo daintyColours. And if it be too {paring and 
thin, ic attaineth no ftreneth of odor, except it be in fuch Plants as are 
very fucculent; whereby they need rather to be {canted in their nourifh- 
ment, than replenifhed, to havethem fweet,. As we fee in White Satyrion, 
which is of adainty fmell; and,in Bean-flowers, &c. And again, if the 
Plant be of Nature toput forth White Flowers onely, and thofe not thinos 
dry, they. are commonly of rank and fulfome fmell ; as May-Flowers 
: White Lillies. by 7 id tet gest 
508. |  _Contrariwife, in Berries, the White is commonly more delicat 
{weet ir, tafte, than the Coloured ; as wefee in white Grapes, in \ 
Rafpes, in white Strawberries, in white Currans, &c. The caufe is fo 
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