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long and flender branches, with large thin ieaves, fhew their 

 unhealthy ftate. From thefe the climbing plants are eafily 

 diftinguifhed by their tendency to contortion, or fhooting forth 

 roots or tendrils. To the deciduous climbers a flight fhade is not 

 hurtful, as it is only there they can find the neceflary fupport ; 

 but in the deep recefles of the foreft, the evergreen climbers will 

 fpread around their tangling branches, and thrive with wild 

 luxuriance, 



Where fcarce a funbeam wanders through the gloom. 



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never appearing, if the foil is fufEciently moift in fummer, to be 

 hurt by the thickeft Ihade of deciduous trees. 



The fhade is alfo the natural fituation for young plants. By the 

 parental {hade they are proteded from the drought of Summer,, 

 and the cold of winter. ' The more a plant is fliaded in winter, 

 and the nearer it is to any large body, the lefs danger it will be 

 in of fuffering from froft. For when a plant or water is fo fituated 

 as to be overtopped by trees, a great part of the hoar or frofty 

 particles, which would fall on it, is intercepted. Under trees 

 we may often obferve water unfrozen, and plants unhurt by the 

 feverity of cold, and many retaining their leaves ; when water at 

 a fmall diftance is frozen, and plants of the fame fpecies, but un- 

 fhaded, lofe their leaves and fufFer confiderably. As large bodies 

 are not eafily cooled, the cold is in fome degree mitigated by the 



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