tBrec fifths , of an EngUjh j whence the 

 much greater clear bodily length of that, 

 to the talleft Mr. Evelyn has mentioned, is, 

 if I compute right, as 78 is to 54 feet. 

 Bleft German phcenix ! Then again as to the 

 clearer bodily lengths of Norway Oaks ; 

 every converter knows the fadt, altho' not 

 the caufe. 



And fliall the Englijh Gardiner's fidllbc 

 applauded, and his ingenuity be rewarded ? 

 for cherifliing and protedling the bloom of 

 foreign fruits, (the cates only of luxury) a- 

 gainft the intemperature of vernal air in our 

 clime — And fhall this plant, the minifte- 

 rial guardian of every temporal good we 

 enjoy, not be thought meritorious of our 

 care ?— 



To fum up all, if the temper of the air 

 is various, but, the confequential effefts 

 thereof are conftant, in producing lateral 

 germens and too early main arms, in this 

 our clime to the obftruftion of more fre- 

 quent bodily greater lengths — if, over and 

 above, contagious infefts — Hot dry weather 

 —And the falls of Honey dews — Are 

 found to happen fo often as to force nature 



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