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to the ground every fifth year^and renewing the Earth with Come old cow- 
dung, and by trimming them every Autumn in OMer a little before the 
full of the Moon, To this he fubjoyns a way of long preferving Roles, viz, 
by gathering them dry and yrrtclofed, filling a well-baked grey earthea pot 
to the top with them,{prinkling over them fome good French wine with a 
little fait in it, and fo fetting them by very well elo{ed,in a dry cellar i and 
as you take them out, dry them in the Sun or at a fire^where they will open 
themfelves,and give a good fccnt. 
-Putting the Indigo amongft Shrubs,hc relates, how him'felf cultivated it, 
fo as to keep it good for feveral years in HoUandy where^ he faith, it grew up 
to the height of above a foot and an half. 
'Examining the feveral forts of F/?/fx,and among them the Viti^ Virginia' 
nafoliU laciniati^^ he not only teaches the culture of it, the art of obtaining 
better and bigger grapes then ordinary, and the feveral ways of long pre- 
ftrving them5(one of which is,by putting them unbruifed in a box^covering 
the bottom of it with courle dry fand an inch highland then laying the clu- 
flers upon thatjand powringthe like over them,andfo onJirat;4m ptper ftra- 
tHm^2LX]d keeping the box in a dry place, ) but alfo obferves a peculiarity in 
the fame, which is, that the roots of it do love moifture fo well, that they 
will dcfcend'lbmetimes 12 or 13. foot deep ( he affirms to ha^e found 
himfcif ) to get into running water under ground. 
'Treating of Capers JriC affirms to have found in a garden at theHagae one of 
thefe Plants fet in the common ground, and there keeping good in a hard 
winter, only a little cover'd. 
•Defcribingthe feveral (oxtso( Cardamom^thcir nature and culture,he faith, 
though the leed that was fent him from the coaft of Malahai\znd from Ja- 
va^would not with all his care thrive with hifn*,yet that which came to him 
out ot G»///y,did,by the great indullry he ufed in the ordering thereof. 
Out of the 3d.Book,about Herbs^wc can here take notice but of very fews 
of which the firft (hall be the Jalappa vera^ or the Mtrabilu Feruviana^hesLr- 
ing a very pleafant flower, which varies almoil in all the individuals thereof^ 
and opens not but about Sun-fet,yielding all night a moft fragrant (cent, 
which is the ftronger^he darker the night is,and the weaker,the clearer the 
night isibeing quite dellitute thereof in the day time, except it be clofeand 
rainy weather^ the heat of the Sun,it feems,confuming the fiibtile odorife- 
lous particles. The like quality is obferv'd in one kind of GeramHm^whkh 
therefore is called Geranium node olens. 
Of Onionr he obferves,that they thrive beft, when fet at the time of the 
decrcating Moon, and bell of all, when the Moon is neareil its end. 
Of the Aloe Americana mucronato folio ^ he relates the ftrange quicknefs of 
its growth.oncof that plant in thegarden.of Qditdi.f arnefm at having 
Ihot up in one month to the heigth of 23 footjand another at Madrid in one 
right 10 foot highland after that,in 8.days.2 5 footvwhich was the^e held for 
j[b great a Miracle,that they built a Chappel upon the place^d^c. 
Of the Sugar-Cane he teaches the culture, and mentions to have had one 
of thcm^ that with great carelarted good in 'his garden two years, and had 
young fhoots, but dyed the third in Autumn. 
Treating of thcBrajpca Cauli-flora^mCoWy-^owersJ^e takes occ»fion to re- 
commend. a way of preferving thefe and other fuch plants, when y0uiig,from 
