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■Her&smVi bee tenderer, and fetret ; if you taketbem out of Beds, when j / 
they arc newly come vp, and remoue thorn int oPots, with better £*rih.\ 
The Remoue from Bed to Bed was fpoken ofbefore • Rut that was in/cue- j 
rail yeares - This is vpon the hidden. The Can/eis the lame with other &e- J 
moves, formerly mentioned. 
Cole-worts are reported by one of the Ancients, to pTofper exceedingly 
anti to be better tafteii ,ifthey be fometim.es watred with Salt water j And | 
much more with Wetter mixed with Nitre^ The Spiiit of which is klfe A- 
durent than Salt. 
it is reported that Cmnmkers'will prone raoTe Tender, and Dainty, if 
their seeds be Steeped (a little) ia Mitke , The Canfe may bee, for chat the: 
Seed being mollified with the Mike, will be too w cake to draw the grof-1 
let luyccofthe Earth,batonely the finer* The lime Experiment may bee j 
made in Articboakes, and other Seeds, when you would take away, either' 
their Flafhinefle, or Bkcernefie. They lpeakealfo,that the like EiFed fol- 
loweth,of Steeping in water mixed with Hottey^ Bur that feerneth to me not 
(b probable, becaufe Honey hath too quicke a Spirit. 
It is reported that encumbers will bee lefic WMry, and mote MeUvlike , 
if in the Pit where you fit them, you fill it (halfe way vp) with chafe, or j 
final! Sticket, and then powre Earth vpon them ; For Cucumbers, as it leera-' 
eth,doe extremely alfe& Moifiurc; AndoueT-drinke themfclues - which 
this Chafe, or Chips j forbiddeth. Nay, it is further reported, that ifwhen 
st encumber is gsownc, you let aPotot water about fine or fix inches di 
fiance from it, it will, in 24. homes, fhootfo much out, as to touch the | 
Pot 5 Which if it bee true, it is an Experiment of an higher Nature, than J 
belongeth to this Tide : For it di fcouereth Perception in Plants, to moue j 
towards that which should helpe and comfort them, though it bee at a di 
fiance. The ancient Traditionof the Fine is Tit more ftrange: It is, that if 
you feta Srake, or Prop, fomc difiancc from it, irwili grow that Way 4 
Which isfarrefiranger (as is laid) than the other ; For that Water may 
woike by a Sympathy of /it traffic* : But this of the Stake feemeth to bee a 
Realbnable Dikonrfe. 
It hath beene touched before, that Terebration of Trees doth make 
them profper better* But it is found alfo, that it maketh the Fruit i wee- 
ter, and better. The Caufe is, for that notw'ith(binding the Tereb ration, 
they may rcteiue Aliment foflficietit $ And yet no more than they can 
well tunic, anddifgefi • And withalldoe fwcat out the courfeft and vn- 
profirabldt Ipyce • Euenas it is in Lining Creatures , which by Moderate 
Feeding, and Exercife, and Sweat, attainc the founJdt Habit of 
Body. 
As Terebration doth Meliorate Fruit, fo, vpon the like rcafbn, doth 
Lessing of Plants Blond ; As Pricking Fines, or other Trees, after they bee 
of fomc Growth 5 And thereby letting forth Gnm, ovTeares ; Though 
this be not to continue, as it is in Terebration , but atlotne Sealbns. And 
it is reported, that by this Artifice, Bitter Almonds haue beene turned 
into Sweet. 
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