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may immediately know, when he fees one fpe- 

 cies of trees in leaf, what fpecies will be next 

 in leaf. Nor do we hardly ever find this order 

 of Flora tranfgrefled. He who fhould imagine 

 he had found the true caufe of this phasnome- 

 non in the different depths of the roots of dif- 

 ferent trees would be miilaken ; for then Ihrubs 

 would always be in leaf before trees of one, 

 and the fame kind , which yet rarely happens. 

 This phsenomenon therefore arifes without 

 doubt from fome other caufe, hitherto undif- 

 covered, and perhaps explicable only by the 

 different texture of the tree. 



The order of the leafing of trees with us is 

 as follows. 



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