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Forchacfome will thriuc belt growing neereothers ; which 
they impute to Sympathy : And (ome worfc • which they im¬ 
pure to Antipathy . But thefc arc Idle and Ignorant Conceits •, 
And forfake the true Indication of the faujes j As the moft Part 
of Experiments concernc Sympathies and Antipathies doc. 
For as to Plants , neither is there any fuch Secret Friendjhip , -or 
Hatred , as they imagine j And if wee fhould bee content to call 
it Sympathy, and Antipathy , it is vtterly miftaken •, for their 
Sympathy , is an Antipathy , and their Antipathy is a Sympathie: 
For it is thus ; Wherefoeuer one Plant draweth fuch a parti¬ 
cular luyce out of the Earth j as it qualified! the Earth ; So as 
that Iuyce which remaincth is fit for the other Planr, there the 
Neighbourhood doth good j Bccaufc the Nourifhmentsarc 
contrary, or feuerall: But where two Plants draw ( much )the 
fame Iuyce, there the Neighbourhood hurteth \ For the one de- 
ceiuech the other. 
Firfl: therefore, all Plants that doe draw much Nourijhmntfrom the 
Earth, and fo foakethe Earth, andexhauft it-hurt all Things that grow 
by them j As great 7 rees, ( efpecially Ajhes ) and fuch T rees , as fpread 
their Roots, neeretheTop of the Ground. So the Colewon is not an 
Enemy (though that were anciently receiued)to the Fine onely • But it 
is an Enemy to any other Pto^Becaufe it draweth ftrongly the fatteft 
Iuyce of the Earth. And if it be true, that the Fine , when ie'ereepeth 
neere the Colewon , will turne away ‘ s This may be, becaufe there it fin- 
deth worfe Nourifhment • For though the Root be where it was^yet( I 
doubt) the Plant will bend as it nourifheth. 
Where Plants are of feucrallNatures,and draw feuerall Iuyces outof 
the Earth, there (as hath beene faid )the One fet by the other helpeth: 
As it is let downe by diners of the Ancients, that Rew doth profper 
much, and becommeth ftrongcr, ific be fet by a Figge-T ree : which(we 
conceiue ) is caufed, Not by Reafon of Friendffjip • but by Extraction 
of a Contrary Iuyce : The one Drawing iuyce fit to rcfult Sweet, the 
other bitter. So they haue fet downe likewife,that a Rofefet by Garlick 
is fweeter: Which likewife maybe,becaufe the more Fetide Iuyce of 
the Earth goeth into the Garlicke 5 and the more Odorarc into the Rofe . 1 
This wee fee manifeftiy, that there be ccrtainc Corne-F lowers, which 
come feldomc or neuer in other places, vnlefle they bee fet • But onely 
amongft Gome: As the Blew-bottle^ a kinde of Yellow Mary-Goldjvilde 
Poppy, and Fumitory. Neither can this bee, by Reafon of the Culture 
of the Ground, by Plowing, or Furrowing ; As fome Herbs,and Flow¬ 
ers, will grow but in Ditches new CaRjForif the GromdWe fallow,and 
vnfowne, they will notepme : So as it fhould feertie to bee the Come , 
that 
