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if dryed, infuse them with water in a heat for 24 houres; then vapour away the water till the dissolution be as thick as a Syrup (but for this use strain them not from their feces;), -take this Masse, and put it into an Earthen or Woodden-Vessel cover'd with some Straw or something else of that nature, that it lye not too close, and so proportion the quantity to the Vessel, that the Air may come about and into the Masse (yet not too much.) Then set this vessel in a ditch or pit made in the Earth in a shady place, and put about it some wet leaves or some such putrifying rubbish, and over it a board, and on that some straw or the like; and it will produce first a shelly husky Worm, and then a Fly of the Tincture of the Concrete, but durable and somewhat more advanc'd.
And as for Berryes, stamp and boyle them, evaporating them to the consistence or a Robe, and then use them as the former.
Lastly, for Woods, infuse them in water, being first pulveriz'd, and boyle out their tincture, and then evaporate also the Water to such a thickness, as the other, and handle them in the like way. The Flyes will play about the sides of the Vessel and the surface of the matter, which taken are kill'd in a warm pan or stove, and so dryed and kept.
Queries
1. WHat Vegetables there are, which, having the wrong end of them set downward into the ground, will yet grow; as 'tis said Elders and Bryars will.
2. Whether the Branch of a Plant (as of a Vine or Bramble) being laid into the ground whil'st yet growing on the Tree, and there taking root, being cut off from the Tree whil'st so growing, will shoot out forward and backward?
3. In tapping, cutting or boring of any Tree, whether the Juyce, that vents at it, comes from above or below.
4. What part of the juyce ascends or descends by the Bark?
