peasehaum, 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 when 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 : be- 

 cause, 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, per- 

 haps, be a wall to the east, to defend them from the 

 piercing blasts from that quarter. 



This observation might without any impropriety 

 be carried into animal life ; for discerning bee-mas- 

 ters now find that their hives should not in the win- 

 ter be exposed to the hot sun, because such unsea- 



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