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will serve for a cup to drink in. Hence we learn how it may be effected,that

An t/ilmond should grow with an inscription in it.

TakeanAlmond,andfleepicfortwoor threedayes; and then break thesoell ofit very charily, that the kernel receive no harm: then you muff write in the ker-nel what you will, but write it as deep in as you safely may: then winde it up insome paper, or leme linen cloth, and overlay it with morter, and soil it with dung;and by that device, when the fruit cometh to be of full growth, it will shew youyour handy work, as Asncantu rccotdeih. So may you make

A Peach to grow with an inscription in it ,

as < Democritus fheweth. After you have eaten the fruit , you must steep the stoneof it for two or three day es, and then open it charily, and when you have openedit, take the kernel that is within the stone, and write upon it what you will, with abrazen pen, but you must not print it too deep, then wrap it up in paper, and soplant ic; and the fruit which that will.afterward bear, will shew you what waswritten in the kernel. But

A Fig will grow with an inscription in it,

if you carve any shape upon the bud, the fig will expresse it when it is grown: orelse if you carve it into the fig when it is first fashioned: but you must do ic eitherwith a wooden pen, or a bone pen, and so your labour shall be sure to take effect. Ihave printed certain characters upon the rine of a Pomegranate, and of a Quince-pear, having first dipped nay pensil in morter; and when the fruit came up to the justmagnitude, I found in ic the fame impressions. Now it remains that we shew howwe may

Fashion Mandrakes,

those countetseit kind of Mandrakes, which couzeners and cony-chatchers carry a-bouc,and fell to many instead of true Mandrakes. You must get a great root of Brio-nie, or wilde Nep, and with a sharp instrument engrave in it a man or a woman, gi-ving either of them their genitories: and then make holes with a puncheon in-to those places where the hairs are wont to grow, and put into those holes Millet,or some other such thing which may shoot out his roots like the hairs of oneshead. And when you have digged a little pit for it in the ground, you must let itlie there, until such time as it shall be covered with a bark, and the roots also beshot forth.

Chap. XIX.

How sr nits may be made to be more tender, and beautiful, and goodly to the eye.

N Ow at length, that nothing may passe us, we will set down divers kinds ofof sleights in husbanding and trimming of herbs and fruits, whereby they maybe made not onely tenderer, sweeter, larger, and better relished, but also freshercoloured, and more sightly to the eye. And first

How an Apple~tree and a Myrtle-tree may be bettered ,we may learn out ok Fheophrajlus , who counselleth to water their roots with warmwater, and promiieth the bettering of the fruit by that means , nay it will cauiethe Myrtle fruit to be without any kernel at all. And this, faith he, was foundout by chance, in certain of these Trees growing ncer unto a hoc Bath. If youwould procure

Goodlier Figs then ordinary,

Columella shews, how you make them to grow more plentifully, and to be a soun.

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