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ther would I any difafter that may befall 

 them. I never in truth met with rtiore than 

 two cold ones which much afFefted them. 

 The latter of which happened in the year 

 1742. The winter preceding the fame, 

 being attended with fharp frofts, and the 

 fpring following with cold winds 5 without 

 any kind warmth to invite the Oaks in the 

 leaft to vegetate ; the fap which by little and 

 little got up at a few favourable times in 

 the winter into their bodies (which on the 

 leaft funfliine lies not wholly dormant) ftill 

 lay without any material aftivity. An(J this 

 was the cafe till near midfummer following : 

 A little before which — Great rains and fun- 

 Aine thereupon enfued, at which time the 

 benummed bodies and their boughs were fuch, 

 as not to be able to contain the then aggre- 

 gate of rarefied fap, and to receive there- 

 with the vaft affluence of more, which the 

 moiftened and warmed earth likewife had 

 enabled the roots to fend up. Whereupon 

 fiich of my young Oaks, as had been de« 

 barHed^ being overcharged with a volatile 

 lympha, threw out thereupon a ramous 

 lpray~ 



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