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78 Vegetable Staticks. 



" and many others, which were deftroyed 

 " to the ground, and were by many people 

 " pulled up and thrown away ; but in warm 

 *' dry foils, where they were fuffered to re- 

 <c main undifturbed, many of them broke 

 " out from the root again, tho' it was very 

 cc late in the fummer before they {hewed any 



figns of recovery. 



The plants in the confervatories fuffered 

 < c very much by being fo long fhut up clofe; 

 Cc for the days being for the moft part cloudy, 

 <c and the wind blowing very iharp, the 

 * c windows of the green-houfes could not be 

 cc with fafety opened, which occafioned a 

 c< noxious damp in the houfes, whereby the 

 <c plams became fickly, languifhed and de- 

 " cayed foon afcer. 



u Nor was the froft more fevere with us 

 " than in other parts of Europe, but on 

 " the contrary in comparifon favourable ; 

 ct for in the Southern parts of France the 

 * c Olives, Myrtles, Ciftus J s, and other trees 

 <c and fhrubs, which grow there almoft 

 c< fpontaneoufly, were deftroyed ; and in the 

 " Nonhern parts of France, as about Paris, 

 " &c, the buds of many kinds of fruit-trees 

 cc - were deftroyed, although clofed, fo that 

 u many of them never opened, but decayed 



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