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making one other quotation from his pages. Previously I gave 
you an extract from Viscount St. Albans, noted before I had come 
upon Cook’s commentary on the same passage; let me give you the 
latter, as once again the statement of the practical man delivered 
against that of the philosopher. 
“ The Lord Bacon, in his natural History, tells you of an old 
Tradition, that Boughs of an Oak put into the Earth will put forth 
wild Vines. I wish all such old Traditions were bury’d in the 
Earth in the room of the Oak-Boughs. 
“He tells us also of an old Beech-tree cut down, the Boot 
whereof put forth a Birch. See p. Ill [132]. 
“This most learned Man, in his next page lays down six Buies 
(tho all, as he confesseth, untry’d by him) concerning the Trans¬ 
mutation of Plants. 
“ The First is, If you would have one Plant turn into another, 
you must have the Nourishment overrule the Seed. 
“ The Second is, To bury some few Seeds of the Plant you 
would change among other Seeds. 
“ The Third is, To make some medley or mixture of Earth with 
some other Plants bruised or shaven, either Leaf or Boot. 
“ The Fourth is, To mark what Hearbes some Earth does put 
forth of itself, and to sow some contrary Seed in that Earth. 
“ The Fifth is, To make an Herb grow contrary to its Nature. 
“ The Sixth is, To make Plants grow out of the Sun, or open 
Air: as the bottom of a Pond, or in some great hollow Tree. 
“ I might and could answer to all these, but I think it would be 
too tedious: for I verily believe, that to sow Seeds any way that 
can be devised by Man will not in the least cause them to be quite 
another kind of Plant, that is, . . . there is no real Alteration 
but by Seed.” 
If we add to this last sentence, the known origin of sports by 
bud-variation, Moses Cook is shrewdly near the mark. John 
Evelyn had a high regard for Cook, and in return Cook frequently 
cites “ Squire Evelyn.” 
I have to thank Mr. John Hopkinson for calling my attention to 
this most interesting local work, and I believe I am correct in 
further stating that it was our past President, Mr. Lewis Evans, 
who first drew Mr. Hopkinson’s notice to the book in question. 
It was about the close of the seventeenth century that two other of 
Bay’s correspondents contributed to the county records. The first, 
Leonard Plukenet, was responsible for Campanula rotundtfolia : 
he lived for some years on a farm he possessed at Horn Hill, near 
Chalfont St. Peter, just within our county boundary (‘Trans. Watford 
