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wood (that is, retained the vessels full of mois- 

 ture), injured in the extremities, and even killed 

 throughout by cold. But this does not prove that 

 these had any vegetable heat, any more than those 

 which suffered no injury from the same degree of 

 cold, prove that they had vegetable heat. The juices 

 of some kinds of plants do not congeal at the same 

 point of temperature as others. The vessels of some 

 in winter are not so much distended with fluids as 

 others ; and probably the ^ital principle of some is 

 less susceptible of injury from cold than others. These 

 facts may account for the endurance of intense cold 

 by some kinds of trees, independent of vegetable 

 heat. 



Our author, speaking of the transplanting of 

 fruit trees, states, that any gardener could have 

 predicted the probability of fruit during the first 

 season, together with fthe certainty during the se- 

 cond of its not taking place." Our gardeners will 

 be moonstruck at having the gift of prophecy attri- 

 buted to them, at least to predict in such a way. 

 We have thought Sir Henry sufficiently ready to 

 impute ignorance to gardeners before we came to this 

 remark ; but to represent a useful and intelligent 

 class of men in so ludicrous a light, is certainly using 

 a very improper liberty. 



