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Flowers: that they may be born with different colors (105); that we may have them always (160); how they are preserved (176); how they may be made more fragrant (138); early-blooming flowers (110); how to make them fall from the tree (618); how they change colors (136); how to extract scented water from them (426) and oil (385, 417).
A bloody flux: how to feign one (327) In the context of Porta’s work, this refers to medical deceptions or theatrical tricks to mimic illness..
Women: how they are born original: "ut gignantur"; referring to methods to ensure the birth of a female child (85); how to make them cast off their clothes and be naked (618) Porta often includes "secrets" involving irritants or illusions intended for pranks or displays of power..
Fennel: how to make it sweet (142); how to extract oil from it (379).
Offspring: born varied through the power of imagination (81) Porta discusses the Renaissance theory of "maternal imagination," where what a mother sees or thinks during conception or pregnancy influences the physical appearance of the fetus..
Foils for gems: how they are made (258) These are thin metal sheets placed behind gemstones in settings to enhance their color and luster.; how they are polished (260); how they are colored (261); violet and sapphire-colored foils (261, 262); emerald-colored, red, and amethyst-colored; how to make them from copper (262, 263); red and green colors (263).
A fountain: projecting water (595).
A furnace: how one is made for the purpose of counterfeiting gems (247).
Strawberries: how to have them in winter (119).
Forehead wrinkles: how to remove them (358).
Fruit: how it is made as a compound of different things (96, 100, 103); varied in color (101); how one may be enclosed within another (105); invisible original: "invisi"; likely referring to fruits hidden within other plants or produced in unusual ways; how they are made better or worse (109); that an early-ripening fruit may be made more perfect (110, 114); that it may ripen more quickly or last forever (115); late-ripening (117); larger than usual (119); without a stone or pit (126);

without skin or shell (120, 131); how it takes on various colors (132); made more fragrant (138); how it may become sweeter (140); how it may take on all manner of forms (145) Referring to growing fruit inside molds to shape them.; more beautiful and better (148); how it is made medicated (151); how it is preserved on the tree (157); how its stem original: "pediculus" is to be treated so it lasts (166); from what place it should be gathered (169); sealed without air (170); in unfermented wine (177); in honey (179); in distilled wine (ibid.); in pickles original: "salgamis" (183); mixed with various things (191).
Grain/Fruit of the earth: to make wine from them (205).
Grain/Corn: how it is to be preserved (187, 192); in the dregs of oil original: "amurca" (187); bread is made from it (198); oil is extracted (389); how to increase its weight (605).
Drones: produced from banquets (50) This refers to the ancient belief in "spontaneous generation," where bees or drones were thought to be born from decaying organic matter..
Makeup/Rouge: so that it cannot be detected (353); how it may be recognized or found out (366).
Smoke: to blind the eyes (448).
Mushrooms: how they are born (92).
A rope: lit so that it does not produce smoke (445).
Theft: how to discover it (617).

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A hen: it mates with a partridge (73); with a pheasant, or a pigeon (73, 74); with a peacock, from which comes the turkey original: "gallopavus"; Porta uses the early scientific term for the newly-discovered American turkey, literally meaning "cock-peacock." (74); that it may be born with four wings or four feet (79); that its chicks may be hatched without incubation (80); that the rooster may perform the hen's office i.e., brooding or raising chicks (221); how its meat may be made more tender (467); and the rooster's likewise (ibid.).