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frosts of winter are often accompanied with 

 snow, which shelters the plant from the incle- 

 mency of the atmosphere until the return of 

 spring; and thus many trees and plants may be 

 acclimated by planting them among natural cop- 

 pice, where they are, in a great measure, pro- 

 tected from the weather. Every one on enter- 

 ing a wood in winter, must have been struck 

 with the difference of the temperature from that 

 of the open field, and may have seen there seve- 

 ral plants, such as the cowslip, violet and snow- 

 drop, in full flower, while, in the neighbouring 

 gardens, their leaves have scarcely made their 

 appearance. It is well known that many rare 

 plants, which had disappeared with the cutting 

 down of a wood, have re-appeared when it has 

 again grown up. " One reason why the Ameri- 

 can plants grow so luxuriantly at Forithill Abbey," 

 says a writer in the Gardener's Magazine, " is, 

 that they were introduced among native under- 

 wood, interspersed among bushes of hazel, dog- 

 wood, &c., and sheltered by firs, oaks and other 

 timber trees." A shrubbery is, therefore, to be 

 considered as the best place for acclimating exo- 

 tics, whether trees or herbs, and more especially 

 if the soil be dry, and the shrubs chiefly decidu- 

 ous ; for it should not be forgotten, that many 

 believe that a coppice wood of evergreens is 

 always colder than one of deciduous bushes, 

 owing to the leaves presenting a greater surface 

 for evaporation. Groves of evergreen trees, on 

 the other hand, especially of the pine and fir tribe, 



