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.
Peaches, which hath the hardest stone, may be preserved long in sodden wine,
You must fill up the Navel of the Peach (or that place wherein the stalk was fastned) with a drop or two of scalding pitch, so that the wine may not get into the peach by that passage; and then shut up the vessel very close, that the air may not get in. Columella saith, That
