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the blue mountain th'iftle^ touch-me-not^ &c. On 

 the contrary we fee fuccories and thiftles never 

 flower before the fame folftice, whence the 

 hufbandman judges from their flowers, as from 

 a calendar that cannot deceive, that the fol- 

 fldce is pafl. From hence it is evident, that 

 there is fomething elfe befides moillure and 

 heat which promotes the fertility of plants. 



In the fame manner trees obferve fixed laws, 

 and a certain order in their leafing-, fo that he, 

 who is but moderately verfed in this affair, 



feldom laft above three or four nights. After thefe barley- 

 does not grow, and about the time they come on, the gar- 

 deners do not venture to truft their green-houfe and other 

 tender plants any longer to the open air. At that time the 

 leaves of the _y%, the jrMlberry^ the ^walnut, the a;ine, the 

 toxicodendrum and even of the beech are fhrivelled up. 

 The Indian plants, fuch as the kidney bean, the African 

 marygoldt the cucumhery the amaranth, the con^vol'vulus, 

 the tobacco, the thorn apple, &c. dye. Nay fometimes 

 even our native plants, as the noli me tangere^ the lejffer bur- 

 dock, the bryony^ the njipers buglos, the pimpernel, the bhe 

 mountain fcnxj-thijile, the goo/e-wort. Sec. wither. But be- 

 fore this happens, the meado^u faffrcn puts forth its flowers, 

 and that fometimes fooncr, fometimes later, according as 

 thefe iron nights conic fooncr or later. Barck. 



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