34^ Mr>. Ray of the Number of Plants. 



ample, white BearSj white Foxes^ white Hares^ white 

 Ravens^ white Black-birds and many others, as I my 

 felf have feen in Italy. That Hares upon the Jflps, 

 and in the cold Northern Regions, do in the Win- 

 ter time, change their Colour to White, and in the 

 Summer again return to their ufual and natural Co- 

 lour ; though I find it deliver'd by good Authors, and 

 attefted by credible Perfons, I dare not peremptorily 

 aflert : But that the influence of the Soil and Climate 

 is great, appears farther in our Lancajhire and Sujjex 

 Beafts , of which the former have fair, large, and 

 well-fpread Horns, the latter fmall and "crooked $ and 

 if into Suffix you tranflate thefe Cattel out of Lanca- 

 jhire, their Race by degrees will degenerate , and 

 come to the Shape of the Natives. So we fee the 

 Horfes in Flanders have large and h airy Patterns, which 

 the Englifi Brded have not : And it is reported for a 

 Truth, that there is a Pafture upon a Hill call'd Ha- 

 felbcdge , in the Peak of Derbyjbire, near little Huck* 

 low, which will turn the Hair of Kine that feed there- 

 upon, to a grey Colour in three Years fpace. 'Now 

 if diverfity of Soil, Food, Climate, or other exter- 

 nal Circumftances, breed fuch variety and difference 

 among Animals of the fame Species, much more then 

 may it among Plants, which are lefs free in the choice 

 of their Nourishment , and conltantly affix'd to the 

 Place where they chance to Ipring up. 



Two ways there are of getting or producing thefe 

 Differences. Firft, by fowing the Seed of that Plant, 

 whereof you defire a new kind, in a rich Soil , or in 

 a Soil- different from its natural, or that where it grew 

 before. So if you fow the Seed (for Example) of a 

 (ingle July Flower in good Ground, among many that 

 bear fingle, it fhall give you fome Roois that bear 

 double Flowers, and Tome of different Colours from 

 their Mother Plant 5 which you may propagate by 

 the flip. The Plants that are moft apt to be thus di- 

 yerfifyed by fowing ? are July Flowers 5 Ammornes , 



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