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if we engraffe a white Vine into a black: for the stock into which it is engrafted,will alter the colour much, as I have seen by experience in hony-grapes, thole whichwe call Greek-grapes; for the Vines which have been engrafted upon those Greek-Vmes, have yeelded a blackish juice or wine; and the cftneriuch engrafting bathbeen made, the blacker juice was yeeldcd. In the places about the Hill Vesuviusthe white-wine grape, which grows upon her own stalk that is engrafted into theGreek-vine ycelds a more high-coloured wine then others do. Another wayto make

Apples grove red ,

is by diligent and cunningdressing,even by applying them with hot and fat receipts;for there are two chief Elements or principles ot colours ; white,and black, or darkcoloured; now by dressing them, and applying fat things unto them. we may pro-cure every flower or fruit that is blackish, to become brighter and fresher colour-ed ; whereas on the other side,if they be neglected,that we do not bestow pains andcare in trimming them, their colour will not be so lively, but degenerate into awbirerish hew ; for all colours that begin to fade, wax somewhat whitish. Berititutherefore, endeavouring to make Apples grow red, watered them with Urine, andso obtained his purpose. But Didymm

To procure red Pomegranates,

watered the Tree with Bath-water sodden into Lye, and some other water mixedtherewith. But there is yet another device, whereby vtc may procure

t/fpplcs to grove red,

by opposing them directly to the greatest force of the Sun-beams; for this willmake them red. Berititu , that he might cause the reflex of the Sun-beams to bemore forcible upon the fruit, used this sleight. He fastened certain stakes into theground, and weighing down the bough* that had fruit upon thein,. he bound themcharily without hurting the fruit to those stakes - and neer thereunto he diggedcertain ditches filling them with water^ or else would place some other vessels milof water neer the boughs ; casting this in his conjecture, that surely the heat of theSun lighting upon the water, would cause hot vapours* which being reflected toge-ther with the heat of the Sun into the places neer adjoynihg where the fruic bangs',and so reflected upon the fruit, would procure them to be of a reddish add a'gdbdlycolour. Berititu aslayed to procure , .

> Red~ Apples,

by another devise, by a secret kind of Operation. Under the Tree he was wont t^oset Roses, which did lend their goodly, hew to the Aspics that grow upon the Treeabove them. Democrtttft practised the like device not upon Apples, but upon Rho-dacens, and made , 0 -?is V u

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by planting Roses underneath the Tree, found about the roots.' likewise we maycolour fruit by colouring the seeds of jhem; for look what colour we procure inthe seed, either by steeping it in some coloured liquor, or by any other means, thefruit will gtow to be of the fame colour which the feed is, when it is set or sown..Asfor example, we may colour J q

Teaches, 1 /

with Sanguinary or Vermillion ; If we bury a Peath-ftone in the ground, and takeit up again seven dayes after (for in that time the stone will open of it self) and thenput into ic some Vermillion, and bury it in the earth again, and afterward look^are-fully unto it, we shall thereby procure Velrnillion-peaches. And Vsmocritm is per-swaded, that if we should put into it any other colour after the same manndr, thePeach would be of that other colour. It it a thing commonly reported among us,and it is not unlike to be true, that. ?cache s