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Sect. XV. 3. 6v 



OF 



F R U I T S. 



4 



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fhelf 



foon threw out roots, and bore a pine-apple th 



;becl upwards of two pound 



Philof. Tranfadt. Vol. LXVII 



6. Vrotedi the early flowers and the late fruits from f reft. The vernal 

 frofts are very pernicious to the early blofTonns of apples and pears, and 



of all the tend 

 fhelter 



various contrivances have been ufed 



thenn, as mats fufpended before w 



hich in Den 



k 



faid to be ufed to fhelter them from the mid-day fu 



well as from the night-frofts ; both to prevent them from fl 



ly, and being thence expofed to feverer frofcs 



d becaufe 



o 



tables fufFer more from great cold, as well as animals, after 



o 



been expofed to great heat, as explained in Sed. XIV 

 Thofe parts of vegetables, which are moft 



fu 



fufFer mod 



from froft, as the young tops of tender trees, as of the afh, fraxinus, 

 and weeping willow, falix babylonica ; and alfo all other vegetables 



fter having been expofed to much moift 

 vhich probably may occur in part 



as to raui 



or d 



fro 



th 



; greater fenfibility of 

 nder juicy fummits of the prefent year's growth, and partly 



the t( 



from the expanfion of their froze 



taining vefTels. 



hich may burU: th 



An important quedion here occurs, is a low fituation to be chofen 



'n ? The greater warmth of low fituations, and their be- 



for a gard 



O t) 



srally better fheltered from the cold north-eaft winds, and the 

 boifterous fouth-weft winds, are agreeable circumftances ; as the N.E. 

 winds in this climate are the freezing winds ; and S.W. winds being 

 more violent, are liable much to injure flandard fruit-trees in fummer 

 by dafhing their branches againft each other, and thence bruifing, or 

 beatino- off the fruit ; 'but in low fituations the fo 

 by moift 



D 



3^5 



th 



you 



(h 



der them much more liable to the inj 



of trees, and their early fl 



of the frofty nights 



which fucceed them, which they efcape in higher fituatior 

 fogs, which are feen by the fides of rivers, and on damp pla 



leys after fuil-fet, are converted into rime during the night 



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