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himself of mats, cloths, pease-haum, straw, reeds, 

 or any such covering, for a short time ; or if his 

 shrubberies are extensive, to see that his people 

 go about with prongs and forks, and carefully 

 dislodge the snow from the boughs ; since the 

 naked foliage will shift much better for itself, 

 than where the snow is partly melted and frozen 

 again. 



It may perhaps appear at first like a paradox : 

 but doubtless the more tender trees and shrubs 

 should never be planted in hot aspects ; not only 

 for the reason assigned above, but also because, 

 thus circumstanced, they are disposed to shoot 

 earlier in the spring, and to grow on later in the 

 autumn than they would otherwise do, and so 

 are sufferers by lagging or early frosts. For 

 this reason, also, plants from Siberia will hardly 

 endure our climate : because, on the very first 

 advances of spring, they shoot away, and so 

 are cut off by the severe nights of March or 

 April. 



Dr. Fothergill and others have experienced the 

 same inconvenience with respect to the more 

 tender shrubs from North America ; which they 

 therefore plant under north walls. There should 

 also, perhaps, be a wall to the east, to defend them 

 from the piercing blasts from that quarter. 



This observation might, without any impro- 

 priety, be carried into animal life ; for discerning 

 bee-masters now find that their hives should not 

 in the winter be exposed to the hot sun, because 

 such unseasonable warmth awakens the inhabi- 

 tants too early from their slumbers ; and, by put- 

 ting their juices into motion too soon, subjects 

 them afterwards to inconveniences when rigorous 

 weather returns. 



The coincidents attending this short but intense 



