The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 



*Lord Bacon was of the opinion, that 

 for the nourifhment of vegetables, the 

 water is all in all, and that the earth 

 does but keep the plant upright, and 

 fave it from the extremities either of 

 heat or cold 5 which indued this curi- 

 ous gentleman to make feveral expe- 

 riments, fome time fuice ^f- publifh'd in 

 the Tranfadlions of the Royal Society, 

 by which he found that his jiiint had 

 galn'd fifteen grains in fcvcnty fevcn 

 days, in fpring water, which appears to 

 have lefs of the terreftrial matter, than 

 rain or Thames water > tho' it had gam- 

 ed much more in the Thames than the 

 rain water, or fpring either 5 that of the 

 rain having gain'd but feventeen grains, 

 but that of the Thames water twenty 

 fix grains 5 though the difpendium or 

 cxpence of water was the lefs by 4., 

 being as 2497 is to 3004. But when 

 this laborious enquirer into nature had 

 infufed only half an ounce of common 

 mold, the exercife was a confidcrable 

 deal more than when there was no mold 

 in it. The refult of thcfe and many 



* Lord Bacon*s Nat. Hiji, cent, f.f. 41 i. 



t Ihiiojofh. Tra-f?Jacf. tor fn/je Num. 2^-9. 



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