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1 than Blowers of the fame kinde Coloured - As is found in Single Whiter \ 
p\ Violets, white-Rofes, white Gilly-Flowers, white Stock-Gilly Flowers , &c. j 
We finde alfo, that BloJJbmes of Trees, that are are commonly 
Inodorate • As Cherries , /’wm, Plummes • Whereas thofe ok Apples, 
Crabs , Almonds* and Peaches , are Bluihy, and fmell fweet. The Gw/e 
| is, for that the Sabidance that maketh the j is of the thinned 
and fined of the Plant 5 Which alfo maketh Flowers to bee of fo dain¬ 
ty Colours. And if it bee too Sparing, and Thinne, it attained no 
Strength of Odour 5 Except it be in filch Plants , as are very Succulent- 
Whereby they need rather to be fcanted in their Nourifhment, than 
• repleniihed, to haue them fweet. As we fee in white Satyr ion, which is 
of a Dainty Smell • And in Beane-Flowers, &c. And againe, if the 
Plant bee of Nature, to put forth white-Flowers onely, and thofe not 
thinne, or dry, they are commonly of rancke and fulfome Smell • As 
May-Flowers* and white Lillies. - ilt 
Contrariwife, in Berries, the White is cbmmonly more Delicate, and 
Sweet in Tafte, than the Coloured ; As we fee in White Grapes • In white 
Ra fP cs i In white Strawberries • In whiteiCurrans, &c. The Caitfe is, for 
that the Coloured are more iuyeed, and eburfer iuyeed, And therefore 
not fo well and equally Conco&ed 5 But the white are better proporti¬ 
oned, to the Difgedion of the Plant. 
But in Fruits, the White commonly is meaner • As in Pea-e-plums, 
Damafins , &c. And the Choiceft Plummes arc Blacke ; The Mulberry , 
(which though they call it a Berry, is a Fruit,) is better the Elacke, than 
the white. The Haruefi white-plumme, is a bafe Plumme ; And the Fer- 
doccio and White Date-Plumme, are no very good Plummes. The Cau/es 
is, for that they are all Ouer-watry: Whereas an higher Concottion 
is required for Sweetneffe, or Pleafure of Tade- And therefore all 
your dainty Plummes, are a little dry, and come from the Stone - As 
9 the Mufcle-Plumme, the Damafin-Plumme, the Peach , the Apricot , &c. 
Yet fome Fruits , which grow not to bee Blacke, are of the Nature of 
Berries, fweeted fuch as are Paler 5 As the Cceur-Cherry, which incli¬ 
ned more to White, is fweeter than the Red ■ But the Egriot is 0OTe 
fowre. 
Take GiUy-Flower Seed, of one kinde of GiUy-Flower : (As of the 
Cloue-Gi'Jy-Flower , which is the mod Common -) And fowitj And 
there will come vp Gilly-Flowers, fome of one Colour, and fome of an¬ 
other, cafually, as tire Seed meeteth with Nourifhment in the Earth ; 
Sotliat the Gardiners finde, that they may haue two or three Roots a- 
mongd an hundred, that are Tare, and of great Price: As Purple, Car- 
nation of fouerali Stripes ; The Cau/eis (no doubt) that in Earth, though 
it be contiguous, and in one Bed, there are very feuerall Iuyces • And as 
the Seed doth cafually meet with them, foit commeth forth. And it is 
noted efpeciallv, that thofe which doe come vp Purple , doe alwaies 
come vp Single ■ Th e luyce, as it feemeth, not being able to fuffjee a 
Succulent Colour , and a Double Leafe. This Experiment ofleUerall Co* 
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