Colour much of Kin to 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 Conjectur