excuse us but also to be surprised that Italy is still Standing^! 



You are so kind to ask how my little plants are doing. Well! All the bad 

 things that we originally expected have not happened; but, on the otherhand, as 

 the yeargoes along, the injuries, which occurred during last winter, are 

 appearing in many places. Many plants which we thought had escaped frost 

 injuries suffered for a long time while others recovered promptly after removal of 

 the dead parts: the late effects ofhidden inJury to the inner organs showed up; 

 the plants collapsed, dried out and had to be torn out and replanted. 



Those plants which superficially seemed severely damaged, but ultimately 

 were not hurt, have recovered which such strength, that it 



^ A very complex German sentence: which is not improved on by the attempted translation. 



