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Natural Magick.

Lilly- flowers of a purple colour.

The manner whereof, yj»<#o/<>«shewethtobcthis. You must take ten or twelveLilly-stalks, about such time as they be ready to yeeld flowers, bind them all to-gether and hang them up in thefmoak: then will there spring out of them somesmall roots, like unto a Scallion. Therefore when the time of the year serves to secthem, you must steep the stalks in the Lees of red Wine, till you fee they bethroughly stained with that colour: then you must take them asunder, and set everyone of them by it self, watering them still with the same Lees; and so you shallhave LilLics that bear a purple flower. Cafflanus attempted by the very likemeans

To produce white Ivy :

He steeped it in white Marie, and covered the roots of it with the same morter foreight dayes together, and it brought forth whi te berries. We may effect the likematters by careful manuring and dressing of fruits ; for if we apply them with sacand fertile muck, the flowers will be a great deal the better coloured, and maybe made blackish j as we have often proved in Clove-gilliflowers, which we haveprocured to be so deep coloured, that they have been even black. And on thecontrary

%ofes i Clove-gilliflowerS) and V iolets wiU wax of a whiterijh colour ,

if they be not carefully lookt unto, that either you do not water them well, nortransplant them, nor dig about them, nor feed them with muck; for by this meansIheophrastus writeth, not only these kinds of flowers, but almost all other, thacgrow in Woods and Forrests unregarded, do become whiterish. But Didymut hathdevised another kind of sleight divers from these, whereby to make Roses andClove-gilliflowers to become white very suddenly; and this is, by smoaking andperfuming them with brimstone about the time thac they begin to open.

Chap. XVI.

How fruits and Flowers may he made to yeeld a better savour then ordinary.

A S it is pretty and delightsome to fee fruits and flowers wear a counterfeit co-lour ; so it is worth our labour to procure in them a more fragrant smell, thentheir ordinary kind is wont co afford : which ching we may effect by divers wayes,by planting, by watering, and by other devices. And for example fake, we willfirrtfhcw, how to make

Limons to become very odoriferous.

If we take that least kind of Limons which is called LimonceUum picciolum y andengraff into a Citron-tree, the stock will inspire the fruit with a very goodlysmell { and the oftner that you so engraffe it, the sweeter smell it will afford, asby daily experience we have tried in our Naples Gardens. So also we may procure

Very odoriferous Pears y

by engrassing them upon a Quince-tree, for the stock thereof wiU lend the fruit Igrateful favour. Diophanes avouchcth, that

nipples may be made more odoriferous ,

if they be engrafted into a Quince-tree; and that hereby are procured those good-ly Apples which the Athenians call Melimela. And I suppose that the Apple cal-led Appium malum y wa* produced by the often engrassing of an Apple into aQuince-tree: for the smell of it is somewhat like a Quince ; and it is not unlikethat rippitu Claudius found it out, and first procured it by the same means. Likewisewe have with us great red Apples, and some of them of a murry colour, which