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though it be but a snjall substance, yet you must make a shift to bore the Trucklethrough the middle, and as well as you can, get out the inmost pith, and in steadthereof put into it those seeds whi.h you desire to have mingled together, packingthem in as hard as the Truttle will bear it: and when you have so done, lay it ibthe ground about two handful deep, with dung and hollow geer, both under ir,and round about it; then cover it with a little thin earth, and water it a little and alittle; and when the seed- also are sprung forth, you must still apply them with wa-ter and dung; and after they are grown up into a stalk, you must be more diligentabout them; and by this means at length there will arise a Lettice, mixed andcompounded with all those feeds. Palladius prescribes the fame more precisely. Ifyou take, faith he, a Truttle of Goats dung, and bore it through, and make ithollow cunningly with a bodkin, and then fill it up with the feed of Lettice, Cres-ses, Basil, Rotchet, and Radish, and when you have so done, lap them up in moreof the fame dung, and bury them in a little trench of su:h ground as is fruitful andwell manured for such a purpose, the Radish will grow downward into a Root, theother seeds will grow upward into a stalk, and the Lettice will contain them all,yeelding the several relish of every one of them. Others effect this experimenton this manner. They pluck off the Lettice leaves that grow next to the root,and make holes in the thickest substance and veins thereof, one hole being a rea-sonable distance from the other • wherein they put the forenamed sreb?, all butthe Radish seed, and cover them about with dung, and then lay them under theground, whereby the Lettice grows up, girded with the stalks of lo many herbs asthere were feeds put into the leaves. If you would procure

'Party-coloured, flowers to grow ;

you may effect it by the fame ground and principle. You must take the feeds erfdivers kinds of flowers; and when you have bound them up in a Linen cloth, lptthem in the ground, and by the commixtion of those seeds together, you shallhave flowers that are party-colonred. By this means, it is thought that Daisies ofdivers kinds were first brought forth, such as are to be see» with golden leaves,reddish about the edge ; nay some of them are so meddled with divers colours,that they resemble little shreds of silk patch t together.

Chap. VI.

How a double fruit may be made, whereofthe one it contained within the other*

T Here is also another way of Composition, whereby fruits may be so meddledtogether, not as we shewed before, that one part of it should be of one fruit,and the other part of another kinde; nor yet that one and the same bough shall atonce bear two or three several kinds of fruits; but that one and the fame fruit shallbe double, containing in it self two several kinds, as if they were but one; where-of I my self have first made trial. But let us fee how the Ancients have effected this;and first

How to ma\e an Olive-grape.

Viophanes fheweth that the Olive being engrafted into the Vine, brings forth a fruitcalled Elæo-staphylon, that is to fay, an Olive-grape. But Vlorentinut in the ele-venth book of his Georgicks, hath shewed the manner how to engraffe the Oliveincoa Vine, that so it shall bring forth not only bunches or clutters of grapes, busan Olive fruit also. We must bore a hole through the Vine neer to the ground, andput into ic the branch of an Olive-tree, that so it may draw and feccive both fromthe Vine, fweetneffe; and also from the ground,natural juice and moisture, where-by it may be nourished: for so will the fruit taste pleasanrlv. And moreover, if,while the Vine hath not yet born fruit, you take the fruitful sprigs thereof, andplant them elsewhere, these sprigs will recain the mixture and composition of the