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loa Pond, or put it in fome great hollow Trees try alfo. 
| Natural Hiftory 
Firft, therefore you muft make account,that if you will have one Plan 
change into another, you muft have the Nourifhment over-rule the Seed : 
And therefore you are to practie it by Nourifhments as contrary as may be, 
tothe Nature of the Herb; fo neverthelefs as the Herb may grow, and likes 
| wife with Seeds that are of the weakeft fort, and have leaft vigor. "You hall 
do well therefore to take Marfh Herbs, and plant them upon tops of Hills } 
and Champaigns ; and fuch Plants asrequire much moifture, upon Sandy } 
and very: dry'grounds. As for example, Marfh-Mallows, and Sedge upon | 
Hills, Cucumber and Lettuce Seeds, and Coleworts upon a Sandy Plat; fo 
'contrariwife plant Bufhes, Heath, Ling, and Brakes upon a Wet or Marth 
|Ground. ‘This I conceive alfo; that all Efculent and Garden Herbs, fer upon 
the tops of Hills; will prove more Medicinal, thoughlefs E feulene eae | 
‘were before. And it may be likewife, fome Wilde Herbs you may mak 2 
|Satet Herbs. Thisis the firtt Rulefor Tranfmutation of Plants. Lat jog 
The fecond Rule fhould be ro bury fome few Seeds of the Herb you] 
| would change amongtt other Seeds ; and then you fhall fee whetherthe Juyee | 
‘of thole other Seeds do not fo qualifie the Earth, as it will alter the Seed | 
| whereupon you work. As for example, Put Parfly-feed among{t Onion-feed, r 
or Lettuce-feed amongit Parfly-feed, or Bafil-feed amongft Thyme-feed; | 
and (ee the change of tafte or otherwife. Butyou fhall do well to put the | 
‘Seed you would change into a little Linnen Cloth, that itmingle not with | 
the Foreign Seed. eS e Ol a 
The third Rule fhall be the making of fomemedly, or mixture of Earth, 
‘with fome other Plants bruifed, or fhaved, eitherin Leaf orRoot: As for ex- || 
amplemake Earth, with amixture of Golewort Leaves ftamped, andfet 1 | 
it Artichoaks, or Parfnips: Sotake Eatth made with CMajoram, or Origannum, | 
ot Wilde Thyme, bruifed, or ftamped, and fet in it Mennel-feed; Gc. In which | 
operation, the Proces of Nature ftill will be, (asI conceive.) nor that the Herb. 
youwork upon, fhould draw the Juyce of the Foreign Herb; (for that] 
opinion we have formerly rejected ) but there will be a new confection 
‘of mould, which perhaps will alter the Seed, and:yet nor tothe kinde of the} 
‘former Herb. ‘ Cah iy nnn 
The fourth Rule fhall be to mark what Herbs fome Earths do put fo: h 
‘of themfelves, andto take that Earth, and to Porit, orto Veilel it 5 and ‘into. 
thar, fet rhe Seed you would change : As for Example, take from under} 
Walls, or thelike 3. whcre Nettles pur forth in abundance, the Earth which 
you fhall there finde, without any String or Root of the Nettles; and pot 
that Earth; and fetin it Stock-Gilly-flowers, Or Wall- flowers, &c. Or fow 
in the Seeds of them/and fee what theevent willbe; ortake Earth, that ol 
| have prepared to put-forth (Mufhrooms of it felf, (whereof you fhall 
fome inftances following ») and fow it in Purflane-feed, or Lettuce-feed. 
inthefe Experiments, it islikely enough, thatthe Earth being accufto! 
{end forth onekinde of Nourifhment, will alter the new Seed. 
| The fifhRule fhall be; to make the Herb grow contrary to hist 
, tomake Ground Herbs rife in height: As for example, Carry Cam 
| ‘Wilde Thyme, orthe GreenStrawberry, upon fticks, as youdo #4 
Poles, and{fee whattheevent willbe. ie he 
ie The fixth Rule fhall be ro make Plants grow eut of the Sun 
Airs for that isa great mutation in Nature, and may inouce ajchang 
Seed : Asbarrel up Earth, and fow fome Seedin it, and putil 
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