io8 Natural M a g i c k. 3.

Yon must cake the roots of the wilde Cucumber, and pown them, and deep themin Air water two or three dayes • and then water your Cucumbers with that liquorfor five dayes together ; and do all this five several times. Again, you may makethem purgative, it, atter they are blossomed, you dig round about their roots,audca!t feme Hellebore "upon them and their branches, and cover them over with earthagain. So you may procure

‘Purgative Gourds ,

if you sleep,the feeds of them in Scammony-water nine dayes before you set them,as the Quinines report. Now if you would pro.ure a man to be loose bellied audsleepy withal, you may cauie

Purgative Davos us that be good also to cause fees.

You must bore thorough a bough, or through the whole stock of a Damosin-trce,and fill it up with Scammony or the juice of black Poppy wrapt up handsomely inpaper, or some such covering : and when the fruit is ripe, it will be operative bothfor sleep and purgation. Cato shews also, how you may cause

A Vine to be purgative.

After the Vintage, at such time as the earth is used to be rid away from the rootsof Vines, you must uncover the roots of so many Vines as in your opinion willmake wine enough to serve your turn: mark them, and lop them round about,andprune them well. Then pown some Hellebore roots in a morter, and cast ihtmabout your Vines, and put unco them some old rotten dung and old ashes, andtwice lo much earth amongst them, and then cover the Vine-roots with mould,and gather the g; apes by themselves. If you would keep the juice of the grdpelong that it may last you a great while for that purpose, you must take heed, that thejuice of no other grapes do come neer it. When you would use it, take a cup fullof it, and blend it with water, and drink it before supper, and it will work withyou very mildely without any danger at ail.Late Writers have taken another course -they rid and cleanse the Vine-roots, and then poure upon the juice of some purga-tive medicine to water them withal ; and this they do for many dayes together, butespecially ac such time as the bud beginneth to fill out: whea they have so done,they cast earth upon the roots again, and they take special regard, that the . rootsnever lie caked and open When the Northern winde bloweth; for that would drawforth and consume the juice of the medicine that is poured upon the roots. Thisif you diligently perform, you shall have grapes growing upon your Vines,that arevery operative for loosing of the belly. I have effected

Phefame bj another means ;

I pierced the Vine with a wimble, even unto the very marrow, and put into it cer-tain ointments fit for such an effect: (it will suffice, if you put them within the rine ; )and thi I did in divers parts of the Vine, here and there about the whole b-dy.ofthe Vine, and that about grassing time by Inoculation; for then the Vine is full ofmoisture; whereby it comeib to pass, that the moisture it self ascending at thattime into the superior parts, doth carry up with it the venue of the ointments,andconveys it into the fruit, so that the fruit will be operative either for purgation dc ;for childe-bearing, either to hurt or help,either to kill or preserve, according as thenature and quality of the ointment is, which was poured upon the roots ofthe Vine.

Chap. XXI.

Photo to plant Fruits and Vtnes f that they may yield greatefi encreafe.

T Hat we tniy conclude this whole book, with a notable and much desired ex-periment, we will now shew in the last place, how we may receive a large en-

create