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in the Won. The Dulcoration o {Things is worthy to be tryed to the full} 
{For that Dulcoration importeth a degree to Nourijhment: And the Ma¬ 
king oiTbingsInalimentall,to become Aliment all,mag be a n Experiment 
ofgreat Protit, for Making new Ffiiwll, 
Moftsmfr in theGrowing,leaue theix Huske or Rinde about thetf w} 6 
But the Onion will carry it vp,thac it will be like aCap vpon the Top of ^ 
the Young OnionTheCaufe may be,for that %hesHtt or Hush is not eafie 
to breake- As we fee by the Pilling otO mens,what a Holding Subfiance 
th c Skin is. 
p/^r/jthathaue Curled Leaues,doe all abound with MoiJlure- t Which <551 
commethfofaft on, as they cannot fpread themfeluesPlaine,but mcift 
needs gather together: The Weakell Kind of Curling is RougbneJJe h 
As in Clary, and Bum. The Second is Curling on the Sides - As in Let¬ 
tuce, and Young Cabbage : And the Third is Folding into an Head- As in 
Cabbage full growne and Cabbage-Lettuce. 
It is reported-that Firre,axidFine,e[^ecia\\y jf they be Old and Putri- 
fied , though they fnine not, as fome Rotten woods doe,yet in the fudden 
Breaking they will lparkle like Hard Sugar, 
The Roots of Trees doe (fome ofthem,)put downewards deepe into 
the Groundi As the Oake, Pine,Fine, See. Some fpread more cowards 
the Surface of the Earth, As the Ajh, Cyprejfe-Tree,Oliue,Scc. The Caufe 
of this latter may be,for that fuch Trees as loue the Sunne, doe not wil¬ 
lingly defeendfarre into the Earth 5 And therefore thy are ( common¬ 
ly ) T rees , that lhooc vp much j For in their Body, their defire of Ap¬ 
proach to the Sunne, maketh them fpread the lefle. And the fame Rea- 
fon vnderGV0«W,to auoidRecefic from the Sunne,makeththexx\ fpread 1 
the more. And we fee it commeth to pafie in fome Trees, which haue 
beene planted too deep in the Ground, that for loue of Approach to 
the sunne, they forfake their htfkRoot, and put out another more to¬ 
wards the Top of the Earth. And wee fee alfo, that the Oliue is full ol 
Oily luyce -, And Ajh maketh the beftFire* An dCyprejfe is an Hot Tree. As 
for the Oake^ which is of the former fort,it loueth the Earth-, And there¬ 
fore groweth flowly. And for the Fine, and Fimdikewife, they haue fo 
muchz/m in themfelues ,as they need lelfe the He at of the Sunne. There 
he Herbs alfo,that haue the fame difference- As th eHerbe they call Mor- 
fus Diaboli ; which putteth the Root downe fo low 5 as you cannot pull 
it vp without Breaking which gaue Occafion to the Name, and Fable - 
For that it was faid,it was fo wholefome aRootjhat the Deuill,w hen it 
was gathered j bit it for Emy : And fome of the Ancients doe report, 
that there was aGoodlyp/m, (which they defired to remoue whole,) 
that;had a Root vnder Ground eight Cubits«deep Andfo the Root came 
vp broken. 
It hathbeene obferued,that a Branch of a Tree, being Vnbarked fome £54 
fpaceat the Bottome,and fo fet into the Ground, hath growen, Euen of 
fuch Trees, as if the Branch were fet with the Parke 011 , they would not 
grow-yet contrariwife we fee,that aTreeV axed round in the^<?^,aboue 
Ground ' 
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