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tho' the greateft Part of the Luferne efcaped unhurt: 

 And I did not hear one Walnut-tree was killed that 

 Winter in England. Perhaps thole in France, having 

 being accuftomed to much hotter Summers, were un- 

 able to endure the Rigour of the fame Winter, that 

 could do no Harm to the fame Species in England, 

 where our Winters do not feem to exceed fome of 

 theirs in Cold, fo much as their Summers do ours in 

 Heat. And fince the Extremes, are not fo far afunder 

 here, the fame Degree of Cold may to our Plants 

 feem tepid, which to thofe in Languedoc mull feem ri- 

 gorous, differing a more remote Degree from the op- 

 polite Extremity of Heat in Summer. 



And, befides the Difference of Heat and Cold in 

 different Climates, there is another more neceffary to 

 be obfervcd ; and that is, the Difference of the Har- 

 dinefs in different Individuals of the fame Species : 

 The fame Froft that kills a faint languifhing Plant of 

 Luferne, will be defpifed by a robuft one, which, 

 being well fed by the Hoe, becomes a Giant cloath'd 

 and fenced with a thick Bark, that renders it impreg- 

 nable againft all Weather; its Hindis to it a Coat of 

 Mail or Buff, impenetrable by Froft: But the unhoed 

 is generally fmall and weak-, its thin tender Bark ex- 

 pofes it almoft naked to the Froft •, it being, for want 

 of a fufficient Pafture, itarv'd and half-dead already, 

 'tis the more eafiiy killed by the Cold. 

 . I formerly lived fome Years in Languedoc, where 

 are many Hundred Acres of Luferne ; and I never 

 could find a very large Plant amongfl it, unlefs in 

 fuch Pieces as had been plowed up, tilled, and fown 

 with Corn : Here indeed thole Plants that remained 

 (as always fome would do) grew to an extraordinary 

 Bulk ; and One of thofe fingle tilled Plants did feem 

 to produce a greater Quantity of Stalks, than Twenty 

 of fuch as had not been plowed up ; and as there were 

 no large Plants amongft the unplowed, fo there were 

 no fmall amongft the plowed ones. The fame thing 



has 



