Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	boil_v	half_a	handful_n	4,343	5	10.3380	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38806	A philosophical discourse of earth relating to the culture and improvement of it for vegetation, and the propagation of plants, &c. as it was presented to the Royal Society, April 29, 1675.	Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1676 (1676)	Wing E3507; ESTC R21425	50,232	182

and burning them in close and reverberating furnaces to which a Tube adapted near the bottom may convey the spirits into a Recipient as he describes the Process I mention this the rather for the real effects which I have been told of this Menstrue from very good Testimony And doubtless he who were skill'd to extract it in quantity and to dulcifie and qualifie it for use a true spirituous Nitre may do abundantly more in the way of the improvements we have celebrated with a small quantity than with whole loads nay hundreds of loads of the best and richest dry Composts which he can devise to make But besides this any houses of Ordure or rancid mould strong salts vinous liquors Vrine Ashes Dust shovelings of the kenuel and streets c. kept dry and cover'd for three or four years will be converted into Peter without half this trouble especially if you mingle it with the dung of Pigeons Poultry and other salacious Fowl which feed on Corn Or those who would not be at the charge of distilling for these advantages may make experiment of the so famous Muck-water not long since cry'd up for the doing wonders in the field Throw of the shortest and best Marle into your Cistern exceedingly comminute and broken which you may do with an iron Rake or like Instrument till the liquor become very thick cast on this the dung of Fowl Conies Sheep c. frequently stirring it to this add the soil of Horses and Cows Grains Lees of Wine Ale Beer any sort of beverage broths brine fatty and greasy stuff of the Kitchin then cast in a quantity of Lime or melting Chalk of which there is a sort very unctuous also blood urine c. mixed with the water and with this sprinkle your Ground at seasonable times and when you have almost exhausted the Cistern of the liquid mingle the residue with the grosser Compost of your Stable and Cow-house and with layers of Earth Sand Lime S. S. S. frequently moistned with uncrude water the taking up of which you may much facilitate by sinking a Tub or Vessel near the corner of the Cistern and piercing it with large holes at the bottom and sides by which means you may take it out so clean as to make use of it through a great Syringe or watring Engine such as being us'd to extinguish fire will exalt and let it fall by showers on the Ground and is much the more natural way of irrigation and dispatches the work This Liquor has the reputation also for insuccation of Corn and other Grain to which some add a fine sifting of Lime-dust on it and when that is dry to repeat it with new infusions and siftings But There is yet a shorter Process namely the watring with Fishmongers-wash impregnated with the sweepings of Ships and Vessels trading for Salt adding to it the blood of the Slaughter-house with Lime as above but this is also much too fierce for any present use till it be perfectly diluted which is a caution indispensably necessary when ever you would apply such powerful affusions lest it destroy and burn up instead of curing and inriching Another take as follows Rain-water of the Equinox q. s. boil'd with store of Neats dung till it be very strong of it dissolve one pound of Salt-Peter in every pottle of water whilst this is a little tepid macerate your seeds for twenty four hours dry them gently rather with a cloth than by the fire sow in the barrenest Earth or water Fruit-trees with it for prodigious effects Or thus Take two quarts of the same water Neats-dung as before boil'd to the consumption of half strain it casting into the percolation two handfuls of Bay-salt and of Salt-Peter ana Another Take rain-Rain-water which has stood till putrified add to it Neats Pigeon or Sheeps-dung expose it for Insolation a week or ten dayes then pass it through a course strainer infuse more of the same soil and let it stand in the Sun a week longer strain it a second time add to it Common-salt and a little Oxes Gall c. Another Take quick Lime Sheeps dung at discretion put into Rain-water four fingers eminent to ten pints of this Liquor add one of Aqua-vitae macerate your Seeds or water with it any lean Earth where you would plant for wonderful effects Infuse three pound of the best Indian Niter in fifteen Gallons of water irrigate your barren Mould 't was successfully try'd amongst Tulips and Bulbs where the Earth should by no means as we have said be forc'd by Composts But a gentler than either is A dilution of Milk with Rain-water sprinkl'd upon unsleckt Lime first sifted on your beds and so after every watering the Lime repeated These with divers more which I might superadd not taken and transcrib'd out of Common Receipt-Books and such as pretend to Secrets but most of them experimented I thought fit to mention that upon repetition of Tryals the curious might satisfie themselves and as they have opportunity improve them whilst perhaps as to irrigations less exalted liquors were more natural And what if Essays were made of Liquors per Lixivium the Plant reduc'd to ashes might it not be more connatural since we find by more frequent tryal that the burning of stubble before the Rains descend on it impregnates ground by the dissolution of its spermatic salts I only name the naked Phlegm of Plants distill'd either to use alone or extract the former salt but I say I only mention them for the curious to examine and ex abundanti For certainly to return a little and speak freely my thoughts concerning them most exalted Menstrues and as they dignifie them with a great name Essentiated Spirits I say all hasty motions and extraordinary fermentations though indeed they may possibly give suddain rise and seemingly exalt the present vigour of Plants are as pernicious to them as Brandy and hot-waters are to Men and therefore wherever these ardent Spirits are apply'd they should be pour'd at convenient distances from any part of the Plant that the virtue may be convey'd through some better qualified medium But when all is done waters moderately impregnated and imbodied with honest Composts and set in the Sun are more safe and I think more natural For as the Learn'd Dr. Sharrok truly affirms Water is of its own Constitution alone a soil to Vegetables not only as the most genuine Vehicle of the riches which it imparts to Plants through the several strainers and by means of which all change and melioration is effected but for that it is of all other substances best dispos'd for ingression to insinuate into and fertilize the Earth which is the reason that floated and irriguous grounds are so pregnant Besides it is of all that pretend to it nearest of blood as I may say to the whole Vegetable Family For to assert with any confidence what part of the meer Earth passes into their composition or whether it serve as we touch'd before