the former, though somewhat differing, and fainter; and by a drop of Spirit of Salt into a fine and lightsome Red:  where as the Red Berry being in like manner rubb’d upon Paper, left on it a Red Colour, which was very little alter’d by the Acid Spirit newly nam’d, and by the Urinous and Lixiviate Salts receiv’d changes of Colour differing from those that had been just before produc’d in the dark Juice of the Ripe Blackberry.

I remember also, that though the Infusion of Damask-Roses would as well, though not so much, as that of Red, be heightned by Acid Spirits to an intense degree of Redness, and by Lixiviate Salts be brought to a Darkish Green; yet having for Trials sake taken a Rose, whose Leaves, which were large and numerous, like those of a Province Rose, were perfectly Yellow, though in a Solution of Salt of Tartar, they afforded a Green Blewish Tincture, yet I did not by an Acid Liquor obtain a Red one; all that the Saline Spirit I imploy’d, perform’d, being (if I much misremember not) to Dilute Somewhat the Yellowness of the Leaves.  I would also have tried the Tincture of Yellow Violets, but could procure none.  And if I were in those Islands of Banda, which are made Famous as well as Rich, by being the almost only places, where Cloves will prosper, I should think it worth my Curiosity to try, what Operation the three differing Kinds of Salts, I have so often mention’d, would have upon the Juice of this Spice, (express’d at the several Seasons of it) as it grows upon the Tree.  Since good Authors inform us, (of what is remarkable) that these whether Fruits, or Rudiments of Fruits, are at first White, afterward Green, and then Reddish, before they be beaten off the Tree, after which being Dry’d before they are put up, they grow Blackish as we see them.  And one of the recentest Herbarists informs us, that the Flower grows upon the top of the Clove it self, consisting of four small Leaves, like a Cherry Blossom, but of an excellent Blew.  But (Pyrophilus) to return to our own Observations, I shall add, that I the rather choose, to mention to you an Example drawn from Roses, because that though I am apt to think, as I elsewhere advertise, that something may be guess’d at about some of the Qualities of the Juices of Vegetables, by the Resemblance or Disparity that we meet with in the Changes made of their Colours, by the Operation of the same kinds of Salts; yet that those Conjectures should be very warily made, may appear among other things, by the Instance I have chosen to give in Roses.  For though, (as I formerly told you) the Dry’d Leaves, both of the Damask, and of Red ones, give a Red Tincture to Water sharpen’d with Acid Salts, yet the one sort of Leaves is known to have a Purgative faculty,[20] and the other are often, and divers ways, imploy’d for Binding.

  [20] See Parkinson Th.  Boran.  Trib. 9. cap. 26.