Cheese is preserved with St. Johns wort.
Cheese is preserved with St. Iohns wort from worms, for if it doth but touch it, no worme will breed in it: and if there bee any in before, it will kill them, and make them fall out of the Cheese.
How Honey is to be preserved.
Honey hath no peculiar preservative, onely that it may bee kept from its Enemie. What its chief enemie is.Now its chief Enemie is bread: for if a little bread made of Corne bee but put, or faln into it, all the Honey is turned into Emmots, and spoiled.
OF THE
NATVRE
Of Things.
THE FOURTH BOOK.
Of the life of Naturall things.
What use the Aire is for as to the life of things.