Of the TroduBion of new'Plants. id ’s

effected ; which Pheofhkastm hath copiously set down. About Herac'iia in A ready;there is a kind of wine, which makes the men that drink of it tb become mad,andthewortiento become barren. And the like Jtkenaief recordeth of that winewhich they have in Troas; a place in Greece. And in Thraius there is a hind ofwine which if it be drunk, will procure sleep ; and there is another kind of winemade in that fort,that it will cause a man to be watchful: and there are divers con-fections of wines which you miy read of in the rtiosl exact Writers of Physick,andof matters of Husbandry, which are easie both to be learned, and also practised bythose that arc well acquainted with the operations of Sitfiples; and they are suchas a mans own conjecture may well lead him unto; and indeed they are nothingelseaimosl, but such qualities operative as the property of the place where theirSimples grow,doth endue them withal. And surely I would counsel that these kindsof confections should be ministred to thole that are timorous and qneazie in the ta-king of any medicinal receipts, that so they may be swallowed down pleasantly,before they should seetri ioatttsom. And fids,

Hew a Vine may be made to bring forth grapes that fhatl be medicinal againfi the biting ofvemmous beasts.

Plorentintu bids you in the first and second book of his Georgicks, to set a Vine-branch , and to cleave it in the lower pare aboilt the root, that the cleft may besomefour inches long; there you mull pluck out the pith, and instead of the pithput Hei lebore into it, aud biode it fast about with some pliant twig, and so coverit with earth; and by this means it will yeeld you grapes that being eaten, willmake your body soluble. Or, if you would have the grapes to be more operativein this kind, you must supple the Vine-branches in some Antidote or counter-poy-ion, and then set them in the head of a Sea-onion, and so cover them with earth;but you must still poure upon it the juice of that counter-poyson, that the sets maydrink their fill of it, and so the strength and venue of the grape will last a great deallonger. If you would have a Vine to yield the grapes whereof the confectionscalled Propomata are made, PaUadnts (hews ydu. You must take the Vine-bran-chcs and put them in a vessel that is half full of Hippocras, or else of Conservesof Roles, ot Violets, or worm-wood; and the earth that grows about the root,you mull resolve into a kind of Lye as it were made of Ashes • then when the branchthat grows up out of the bud beginneth to bear a leas, you must take it away,Sr set itas you set other Vines, in any other place, and the fruit will be such a grape as youdesire. Pliny faith , that if you plant Hellebore about the roots of the Vine,it will yield a grape fit for such a purpose. Cato faith, that the herb Scam-mony hath a wonderful quality in drawing into it self the juice of the Vine.Plmy shews

How to mafe that kjnd of wine which it called "Phthorinm^ and kills children iit their Mo*thers wombes.

That Hellebore which grows in Thassus, as also the wilde Cucumber, as also Scam-mony* are good to make Phthorian wine, which causeth abortives. But theScam-mony or black Hellebore mull be engrafted into the Vine. You must pierce theVine with a wimble, and put in certain withie-boughes, whereby you may binde upunto the Vine the other plants that are engrafted into i^t so (hall you have a grapefull of sundry venues. So you may procure

Pigs that j,hall be purgative,

if you pown Hellebore and Sea-Letdce together, and cast them upon the Fig-treeroots: or else if you engraffe them into the fame roots, for so you shall have Figsthat will make the belly loose. Florentinm faith, that you may make a Fig to growwhich shall be good against the biting of Vcnemoils beasts, if ybuset it after ic hathbeen laid in triacle* So we may procure

‘Purgative Cucumbers.

R a Ycu