Natural magick by John Baptista Porta, a Neapolitane ; in twenty books ... wherein are set forth all the riches and delights of the natural sciences.
Porta, Giambattista della, 1535?-1615.
The red Myrtle and the red Bay-tree into black,
and cannot chuse but lose their colour: for these likewise degenerate, as the same Theophrastus reports to have been seen in Antandrus; for the Myrtle is not sowed by seed, but planted by graffing; and the Bay-tree is planted by setting a little sprig thereof that hath in it some part of the root, as we have shewed in our discourse of Husbandry. So also are