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Show NA t there are no fuch Things in h a Foot deep, and fill it up again 1, Nasturtium ;_ Aortenfe, vulgatuin. in the manner before directed, Cc. B. P. Common Garden-Crefs. Il be equial to removing theminto an2. Nasturtium; borten/e, crifpum. C.BP, of other Place: "Lhis is the cont:ant Practice Curl’d Garden-Crefi. the Gardeners in Holland, who have but little Roomto change their Roots; therefore they every Year remove. the Earth of their Beds, is and put in frefh, fo that the fame Place conftantly occupy’d by thelik Flowers The common Sorts of Daffodil are generally planted in large Borders of the PleafureGarden, where being intermix'd with other Bulbous-rooted Flowers, do afford an agree- able Variety in their Seafons of Flowering : Thefe Roots are very hardy, aand will thrive in almoft any Soil or Situation, wi ich renders ’em very proper for Rural Garde 3. Nasturtium ; hortenfe, _latifolium. C. B. P. Broad-leav’d Garden-Cref. 4 NasturtIuM; fy r (ulis crifatis, Tourn. Swine’s-Crefs, or Warted Bucks-horn, The firft Sort is commonly cultivated in Gardens asa Sallet-herb, and is chiefly efteem’d in the Winter and Spring, it being one of the warm Kind. During the Winter Seafon, it muft be fown upon a gentle Hot-bed, and cover'd with either Mats or Glaffes, to pre- ferve it from great Rains or Froft, both of which are equally deftructive at that Seafon: x planted under the Shade of Trees, they In the Spring it may be fownin warm Borendure feveral Years without btaniplanting ders, where, if it be defended from cold produce annually, in the Spring, great Winds, it will thrive very well: But if you rs, which afford an agree- would continueit in Summer, you muft fowit F i upon fhady Borders, and es fowing every ould be planted in Beds, or Weel , otherwife it will be too large for Ule ; orders, oe from other Roots; becaufé for at that Seafon it grows very fatt, The Broad-leav'd and Curld Sorts are pree to be tranfplanted at leaft every otherwife their Roots are apt to fery’d in fome Gardens for Curiofity Sake, ender, and feldom flowerwell and to garnith Difhes, but the common Sort salto the Cafe, if they are is equally as good for Ufe. Thefe fhould be Years in ae fame Soil ; fown fomewhatthinner than the commonSort, and when the Plants come up, they fhould be the Roots fhoul drawn out, fo as to leave the remaining ones of the Gar 7 Hogi be ofte n hod; half an Inch afunder, whereby they will have Method to preferve Room to expand their Leaves, in whichtheir in a more confined Senfe, comeveral Kinds of Beings, created ancreated ; corporeal and fpiritual ; thus y, human Nature, i.e. all Men who s the fame ional Soul; angelical Na4 ture; divine Nature, in a ftill more reftrain’d Senfe, is ufed for the Effence of a Thing, or that Attribute that makes a Thing what it is, as *tis the Nature of the Soul to think. 4. Nature is pa arly ufedfor the eftablith’d Order and Courfe of material Things, the Series of the Second Caufes, or the Laws that God hasianos'd on the Motions imprefs'd manytimes, it overcomes their Spirits, efpecially if confined in a Room; for which Reafon they fhould never beplanted too clofe Effeéts above Powers of Nature ; and that Art exceeds Nature, by means of Machines and moving Powers. which produce Effects which go beyond what wefee in the common Courfe of Things. Natureis: alfo ufed to fignify an Agere» of Powers, which belong to any Eody, ially a living one. Thus we fay, Nature is weak, Nature is{pent, &c. ure is alfo more ftri@tly ufed for the of Providence, the Principle of all toan Habitation, left they sorahe offenfive ; nor fhould the "Flowers ‘be placed in fuch Rooms where Company is entertain’d. NATURAL; is belonging to, of Pro ceeding from Nature. NATURAL FACULTY; is that Fa [This fome derive of or Adtion whereby Bodies are increafed, nouNofes rifhed, or preferved. aufe it has fuch an Acrimony, that the Term varioufly uled, ell of the Seed bruifed will prove ke SneezNATURE; is 4 Crefs. and Mr. Boyle, ina “Treatife of Lhe vill receiv'd Notion of Nature, gives us eight PF our Leaves, which cipal ones. em of the 1 in Form of aG fs: The Pointal, us Nature is ufed for the Syft from the Centreof the Flower-cup, World, the Machine of the Univerfe, or the s. ifo {mooth Fruit, which is di- Affemblage of all created Being to two Cells,ne the intermediate Parti-~ Inthis Senfe we fay, the Auf t to the Vi ; meaning God; and {peaking of th eS ufe he \ i b are generally him the Father of Nature, beca a Earth, and makes it fruitful ; and which as, be adi The Leaves the NASTURTIUM: lafi oe i.e, the Zormentof tl ut into many Parts, by whiich Crefs is dibd from 'Thlafpi, or Treacle-Muftard. inates ee of Nature, becaufe he illum 4 F verfe ; and of a Phenix, an Unicorn, a their Reétilinear Motion, only ceafes to run round, becaufe refifted by the Air, and the Frition of the Plane whereon it moves And thus the larger Bodies of the Planets and Comets preferve their progreffive, circular Motion a long Time undiminifh’d, Regions void of all fenfible Refiftance. The Change of Motionis ¢ to ie Moving Force, wh andin the Direti,tion of the Rig in S “a. chout the Creation, and moves and a double Force will produce double the Motion, a triple Force triple the Motion, whether it be imprefs’d all at once, or fucceffively, by Degrees. And_ this Motion, fince it is ever directed to the fame Point, (with the generating Force) if the Body were in Moking of the A@ion of Nature, no 1 Laws of ion which the Creator bas yle alfo propofes a Notion of Nature, which the Seeds fhould be beaten out, 4and preferved in a dry Place for Ufe. Acti- th and thus a Top, whof by Cohe jon, are continually ‘drawing one another out of If a certain Force produce acertain Motion, more is to be underftood, but that Bodies att ot one another, in a Manner, agreeable to the upon a Cloth two or three Days to dry, after NASTURTIUM INDICUM; Every Bodyperfeveres in the fame State, a of Reft, or Uniform Motion ; except fo far asit is forced to change that State by fome foreign Force. that fpiritual Being which is dif3odies, and gives the m.certain Proand sper certain Effeéts. In this i Gee or Virtues the Plants fhould be drawn up, and fpread viola. OF thefe ‘Sir Yaac Newtou has eftablifh’d wife Laws of Nature: Thus Projectiles perfevere in their Motions fo far as ’till they are retarded by the R. appear inclin’d to degenerate from their Kinds, termix em together. Whenthe Seedsareripe, from which, as from Axioms, the others are deduc’d, they call Laws of Nature. ance of the Air, and leaving only fuch of the broad-leav’d Kind as have very fair broad Leaves; and fo of the very much carl‘d; being verycareful not to in fall them in their natura/State. _ The Laws of Nature and of Motion are in Effect the fame: Cuftom, indeed, has made fome Difference, and we find Authors call the particular Cafes of Motion, Laws of Motion ; the more general or catholick ones, and thofe fick is the Study ‘of Nature 3 Refpiration is by Nature neceflary to Life. Again, in this Senfe we fay, Miracles are In orderto prefervethefe Varieties diftine, youmutt carefully feparate all fuch Plants as curl'd Sort, only fuch as have their Leaves on another ; and in all the Changes which be- by him. In this Senfe we fay, ‘The Day and Night, by Nature, fucceed al Phy- Difference from the commonSort confifts. fucceed t, nor be fs an e from ots of Trees, or ous Weeds; but fhould not be dung’d; for remarkable, that where the Ground is maderich, they feldom inue good very long, but are fubject to t downwards, and formlong flender Roots. Thefe Flowers are greatly efteem’d by many People for their {trong fweet Scent, tho’ there be very few Ladies that can bear the Smell of them; fo powerful is it, that, ferv’d by natural Bodies in their Aétions one more fit than any yet given, to pafs for principal one of Nature ; with regard to which, many Axioms and Expreffions relating to the Word Nature, may be conveniently underftood ; and in order to this, hediftintween general and particular Nature, tion before, is either to be added toit, theIMotions confpire, or fubftracted from it, as where contrary ; or added obliquely, as where oblique ; and is compounded with it, according to the Determinations of each. 3. Reattionis ales, contrary and eq Attion ; or the ae L x ddiretted contrary Ways Whatever preffes or pulls another, is equally prefsd or pull’d thereby. ‘Thus, if I) prefs a Stone with my Finger, the Finger is equally al Nature hedefines the Aggregate of prefs'd by the Stone; if a Horfe draw a the Bodies that make up the World, confider’d Weight by a Rope, the er is equally we Principle, by Virtue whereof, they act drawn back by the Weight ; for the Rope and fuffer according to the Laws of Motion, being equally ftretch’d each W ay, will, with prefcrib’d by the Order of ‘Things. ! Nature of any fabordinate or individual, conti in the general Natures ap- an equal Endeavour to relax itfelf, drive the Horfe towards the Stone, and the Stone towards the Horfe, and will hinder the Pro- ply'd toa diftin& Portion of the Univerfe. Or, it is a Convention of the Mechanical Properties, (as Magnitude, Figure, Order, grefs of the one as muchas it promotes that of the other, Again ; if any Body, byftriking on ano- Situation, and Local Motion) of Parts conve- ther, do, in any manner, change its Motion, it will itfelf, by means of the other, under an equal Changein .its own Motion, by Reafon of the Equality of the Preffure. tand fufficient to conftitute, or intitle to its particular Species or Denominations, the i oe ar Body they make up ; the Concourfe of all thefe being cootiler’ d, as the Principle of Monon, Reft, The Laws of Nat soil are Axioms or Genetal Laws and Rules of Motion and Reft, ob- In thefe Actions the Changes are equal ; not thofe, we mean, of the Velocities, but thofe of the Motions, the Bodies being fuppos'd free of any other Impediments : Forthe Changes |