ioi Natural Magick.

mans head, without any greenesse at all, which is the natural colour of that fruitwhiles it is in growing. And this is the sleight that Africamts prescribes, whereby

A Citron may be made to grow in the likenejfe of a mans head , or the head of an horfe y oran 7 other living Creature.

You must take some Potters clay, or soft morter, and fashion it to the bighesse of aCitron that is at his full growth: but you must cleave it round about with a sharpinstrument, so that the fruit may be taken out of it handsomly ; and yet in themean space the sides of the cafe mull be so closely and firmly joyned together, thatthe fruit growing on, may not break it open. If the counterfeit or case which youmake, be of wood, then you must first make it hollow within ; if it be of clay,you may clap it on, as it is, so chat it be somewhat dry. But then when the fruitcomes to be of a greater and stronger growth, you must prepare earthen veflelsmade for the purpose, with a bole in them at the lower end, that the stalk of thefruit may there be let in: Into these earthen vessels you must enclose the fruit, andbinde them about with a strong band, for otherwise the growth of the fruit willbreak them open: And when you have procured the fruit to grow up into hiscounterfeit, or sheath as it were, that it is come to the just bignesse of a fruit ofthatkinde, it will bear the fame stupe and figure which you would have in it. Thelike we have (hewed before out of Plorentinm. ‘Pontanw also speaks of the famedevice. If, faith he, you would have a Citron to grow ia divers shapes, you mustcover it being young, with some counterfeit of clay j or wood, or earth, whereinitmay beswadled; as a tender infant in his Nurses bosom: and that counterfeitwill fashion the fruit into any form ; and when it is taken out, it will resemble anyimage that you have carved within the counterfeit. So also you may deal by

Pomegranates , ''Pears , or any kjnd of Apples , making them to receive any k*ndeof form ,

for the same Author writes, that if you bestow the same pains and diligent careupon any other fort of Apples, you may frame them to every fashion; for so it isin brief,faith he,that all Apple-fruics may be made to grow up to the shape of any li-ving creature,if you first carve the same shape into a counterfeit of wood or earth,andlet the fruit be shut up into that counterfeit, that it may grow up within it. So mayyou make

A Quince grow in the shape of living.Creatures,

as Democritus affirmeth, by putting them into some counterfeit that is carved withinto the fame proportion, and so let the Quince grow in it. But it is easiestto make

Cucumbirsgrow to any form ;

for if you take earthen vessels of any fashion, and therewith cloath the Cucumberswhen they are very young, and binde them very fast about, they will receive anyshape or impression very easily, If you take a Cane, and make it hollow all along,and bind ir fast about, and then put into it a young Cucumber or a young Gourd, itwill grow so pliable within it, that it will fill up the whole length of the Cane.Pliny faith, Cucumbers grow to any fashion that you would frame them unto j inso-much that you may, if you will, make a Cucumber grow in the shape of a Dra-gon, winding himself many wayes. Likewise, a Gourd will be made to grow pick-ed and sharp by many means, especially if it be put into a case that is made of suchpliant twigs as Vines are bound withal; so that this be done as soon as it hath castthe blossom. But if yon lay a Gourd betwixt two platters, or dishes, it will growto the fame plainness- and roundness: - and of all other fruit, this is the easiest andfittest to be formed to any fashion. You may make them to grow like a Flagon, orlike a Pear, • great at the one end, and small at the other, if you rye it hard in thatpart which you would have to be the lesse:astcrward when it is come to full growth,dry it, and take oat all that is in it, and when yon go abroad, carry it about you, it