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Summers have given us proof enough of this- 

 For though the Heat we have had, was fufficient 

 to raife the Vegetative Matter into the lower 

 Plants, into our Corns, our Wheat, Barley, 

 Peafe and the like ; and we have had plenty of 

 Straw-berries, Ras-berries, Currans, Goosberries, 

 and the Fruits of fuch other Vegetables as are 

 low and near the Eanh : Yea, and a moderate 

 ittore of Cherries, Mulberries, Plumbs, Filberts, 

 and fbme others that grow fbmewhat at a greater 

 Height ; yet our Apples, our Pears, Walnuts, 

 and the Productions of 



the taller * Trees have * the PmrfiJppte and 

 been fewer, and thofe Tear-trees have fucceeded 



not fo kindly, fo tho- ^Z^^l^JfrT 

 1 1 • \ 1 j of the fame hnd, thofe that 

 roughly ripen d, and keep clo f efl t0 tbe Emb 



brought to that Perfe&i- always produce the moft and 



on they were in the for- befl Fruit. For which %ea- 



mer more benign and ff\is thxt the Gar diners 



, . o r vr . ***** a9l & reflrain the 



their warm Seafons.Nay, Cromh oj b ' mr Pfuh _ 



even the lower Fruits trees , and prevent their 

 and Grains have had running up to too great a 

 fome {hare in the com- Hei^hu 

 mon Calamity j and fal- 

 len (hort both in Number and Goodnefs of what 

 the hotter and kinder Seafbns were won't to (hew 

 us. As to our Grapes, Abricots, Peaches, Ne- 

 &arens, and Figs, being tranfplanted hither out 

 of hottei Climes, 'tis the lefs wonder we have of 

 late had fo general a Failure of them. 



Nor is it the Sun, or the ordinary emiiTion of 

 the Subterranean Heat only, that promotes Ve- 

 getation ; but any other indifferently, according 

 to its Power and Degree : This we are taught 

 by our Stoves, hot Beds, and the like. All 

 R Heat 



