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the Coloured are more juyced, and courfer juyced-, And therefore not fo 

 well and equally Conco&ed But the White are better proportioned to the 

 Di'fgeftion ofthePte. 



But in Fruits, the White commonly is meaner; As in Pear-Plums, Dama- 

 ftns, • &c. And the Choiceft Plummes are Blacke-, The Mulberrie, ( which 

 though they call it a Betty is a Fruity is better the Blacke, than the white. 

 The Harveft White-Plumme, is a bate Plummes And the Verdoccio and White 

 Date-Plumme, are no very good Plummes. The Caufe is, for that they are all 

 Overwatry.- Whereas an higher Concodtion is required for Sweetneffe, or 

 Pleafure of Tafte, And therefore all your dainty Plummes, are a little drie, 

 and come from the Stone-, As the Muskle-Plumme, the Damafm-Plumme, 

 the Peach, the Apricot, dec. Yet fome Fruits, which grow not to be Black, 

 are of the Nature of Berries, fweeteft fuch as are Paler-, As the Coeur-Chery, 

 which inclineth more to white, is fweeter than the Red; But the Egriot is 

 more fowre. 



Take G illy- Flower- Seed, of one kin&e of G illy- Flowers: (As of the Clove ■ 

 Gilly- Flower which is the moft Common^ ( And fow it-, And there will 

 come up Gilly-F lowers, fome of one Colour, and fome of another, carnally, as 

 the Seed meeteth with Nourifhment in the Earth-, Sathatthe Gar diners 

 finde, that they may have two or three Roots amongft an hundred, that are 

 rare, and of great Price-, As Pur fie) Carnation of feveral Stripes-, The Caufe 

 is, (no doubt,) that in Earth, though it be contiguous, and in one Bed, there 

 are very feverall Iuyces; And as the Seed doth carnally meet with them, fo 

 it commeth forth. And it is noted efpecially, that thofe which do come up 

 Purple, doe alwayes come up Single-, The ^puyce, as it feemeth, not being 

 able to fuffice a Succulent Colour, and a Double Leafe. This Experiment of 

 feverall Colours, comming up from one Seed, would be tried alfo in Larkes- 

 Foot, Monks-Hood, Poppey, and Hollioke. 



Few Fruits are coloured Red within-, The Queen- Apple is ; And another 

 Apple, tailed the Rofe- Apple, Mulberries likewife-, and Grapes, though moft 

 toward the Skin. There is a Peach alfo, that hath a Circle of Red towards 

 the Stone : And the Egriot-Cherry is fomewhatPcv/ within-, ButnoP^r, 

 nor Warden, nor Plumme, nor Apricot, although they have ( many times ) 

 Red fides, are Coloured Red within. The Caufe may be enquired. 



The general Colour of Plants is Green, which is a Colour that no Flower is 

 of. There is a Greenijh Prime- Roje, but it is Pale, and fcarce a Greene-, The j 

 Leaves of fame Trees turne a little Murry, or Reddi [h; And they be com- J 

 monly Tmng Leaves th.it do fo ; As it is in Oakes , and Vines, and Hafle, 

 Leaves rot into a T ellow And fome Hollies had part of their Leaves Tellow, 

 that are,( to all feeming,") as Freih and Shining, as the Green. I fuppofe al- 

 fo, that Tellow is a leffe Succulent Colour, than Green : And a degree nearer 

 White. For it hath been noted, that thofe Tellow Leaves of Holly fond 

 ever toward the North, Or North- Ea/l. Some Roots are Tellow, isCarrets; 

 And fome Plants Blvod-Red,Sti\ke and Leafe, and all As Amaranthm. 

 Some Herbes incline to Purple, and Red; Asa Kinde of S^doth, and 

 aKindeof Atot, and Rofa Solis, &c. And lomehave white Leaves, as 

 another Kinde of Sage, and another Kinde of Mint; But Azure and a 

 Fair Purple, vet never found in Leaves. This meweth that Flowers are made 

 of a refined juyce of the Earth-, And fo are Fruits : But Leaves of a more 

 Courfe, and Common. 



ftns a Curiofuy alfo to make Flowers Double ; Which is effected by Often 

 Removing them into New Earth; As on the contrary part, Double Flowers, 



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