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The Colours of Plants. Lea. V. 


other Part, which is not fo fufceptive, and hath been tin@ur’d already. 
All the ftrange varieties in Carzations, Tulips, and other Flowers are 
made this way. 
31. g. The other Rule is, To change the Soyl, or frequently to 
tranfplant from one Bed to another. By which means, the Plamt, is as 
it were, /uperimpregnated with feveral Tinéfures, which are prolifick 
of feveral Colours; which way is taken for Roots and Stips. 
32. §. The confideration whereof, and of the foregoing Experi- 
ments, may dire€t us not only in changing the Bed, but alfo in com- 
pounding the Soy, as by mixing fuch and fuch Sx/ts, or Bodies impreg- 
nated with fuch Salts, I fay by mixing thefe Bodies in fuch a propor- 
tion, with the say/, as although they have no Colour in themfelves, yet 
may be effe€tual to produce a great variety of Colours in the Plants they 
nourifh 5 fupplying the Plats with fuch Tinéfures, as thall concur 
with the der, to {trike or precipitate their Sulphur into fo many feve- 
ral Colours, after the manner above explicated: and fo to bring even 
Natures Art of Painting, ina great part, into our own power. 



