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Natural Magick. Doo^ z.

Shots and sowre PomgranMe-treet may be made to bring forth a street ‘Pomegranate :for these also may be changed from sharp and sowre into sweet. Aristotle shews inhis book of plants, that^Pomegranatc-trees, if their roots be applyed with Swins-dnng, and watered with foom cool sweet liquor, the fruit will be the better andthe sweeter. Theophrafitu faith, that the roots of a Pomcgranate-tree must be ap-plyed with Urine, or with the offals and refuse of hides, yet not in too great aquantity: for the roots of this kind of Tree have need of some sharp matter toknaw upon them, and most of all, every third year, as we said before of the AI-nsond-tree; but indeed the Pomegranate*roots are more durable. The reason is,because of a kind of soseneffe in the roots, which is peculiar unto them alone. NowSwincs-dung, faith he, or somewhat that is of the like operation, being cast uponthe roots, doth sweeten the juice of the Tree: as also if you pour on good storeof cold water, it will work some kind of change thereof. ‘Paxamm prescribesthis course,to dig round about the root of the Tree, and to lay Swin$-dung upon it,and then when you have cast earth upon that, water it with mans Urine, (solttmcllafaith; If you have a Pomegranate* tree that bears a sharp and a sowre fruit, this isyour way to amend it: You must cover the roots with Swins-dung and mans ordure,and water them with mans Urine that hath stood long in some vessel; and so it willyield you for the first years a fruit that tastes somewhat like wine, and afterwarda sweet and pleasant Pomegranate. Pliny reporteth the very same thing out of thevery same Authors. Anatolwefai'Ns

How to make an Apple-tree become sweeter $

and that is, by watering it continually with Urine, which is a thing very comfor-table to an Apple-tree.iSome do use Goats-dung and the Lees or dregs of old wine,applying them to the roots of the Apple<rce, and thereby cause it to bear a swee-tenfruir. 'fhcophrastw faith ; If syou water an Apple-tree with warm water in theSpring time, id will become better. The like applications being used to Herbs,will make them sweeter also. As for example fake; we may procure

Sweet Sndive.

There be many things, which being watered with salt liquors, do forsake their bic-terneffe, and become sweet. Of which sort Endive is one: and therefore if wewould have sweet Endive, 7 heophrasttu willeth us, to water it with some fait li-quor, or else to set it in some fait places. The like practise will procure

Sweet Caleworts.

And therefore the Ægyptians domix water and Nitre together, and sprinkle it up-on Coleworts, that they may be sweet: And hence it is that the bcstColewortsare they which are planted in salt grounds: for thefaltnesse, either of the groundwhere it is set, or of the liquor wherewith it is watered, doth abate and take away the tartnesse and natural saltnefle of the Coleworts. In like manner, if youwould procure

Sweet Betonjfy

Theopfarafim coonseileth you to water them with salt liquor, and so they will beget-ter. Which very same things Pliny reporteth out of the fame Author. Likewise youmay procure

Sweet %ochet t

such as will yeeld leaves that shall be more toothsome, if you water it with salt U*quor. There is another sleight in husbanding of Pot-herbs, whereby they m*y beproduced fitter to be eaten; and this is by cropping the stalks of them,

Bast I will grow the sweeter ,

if you crop the stalk of it: for at the second springing, the stalk will be sweeter