and clos'd again, and I eafily believ'd it ; but that they arc 
really as folia as before, I doubt will not appear, when they 
fhall come to be examin'd by the Axe, and converted to ufe : 
Nor has this accident happn*d only to Handing Timber, but 
to that which has been felld and feafon'd, ^is Mr, Shifty^ the 
Matter Builder in his Majefties Ship yard here, inform'd me : 
fo much for our Indigin^.: As for Exotics^ I fear my Cork- 
trees will hardly recover 5 but the Spring is yet fo very back- 
ward (even in this warm and dry fpot of mine) that lean- 
not pronounce any thing pofitively i efpecially of fuch,whofe 
bark is very thick and rugged, fuch as is the Ctr^, Enz^ma^ and 
divers of the reftnous Trees. The ConFfantmoplitan or Horfe 
Chefnut is turgid with buds, and ready to explain its leaf. My 
Cedars I think are loft : The Ilex and fcarlet Oak not fo i The 
Arhutm doubtful, and fo are ^ap^ but fome will efcape, and 
moft of them repuUuIate and fpring afrefh if cut down near the 
Earth, at the latter end of the month : The :ycotch Fir^ spruce^ 
and white '^fanijh (which laft ufes to fufFer in their tender 
buds by the fpring frofts) have receiv'd nodammage this 
Winter ; I cannot fay the fame of the Pine which bears the 
greater Cone, but other Norn/ays and FimHers are frefh : Lai^» 
rel is only difcolour'd, and fome of the woody branches mor- 
tified, which being cut to the quick will foon put forth a- 
gain, it being a fucculent Plant. Amongft our Shrubs, Roje- 
mar] is mtirely loft, and to my great Ibrrow j becaufe I had 
not only beautiful hedges of it,but fufficient to alJbrd me flow- 
ers for the making a very confiderable quantity of the Queen 
of tiungaries celebrated Water : fo univerfal (I fear/ is the 
deftrudiion of this excellent Plant (not only over Er.glfjui^ 
but our neighbour Countries more Southward] that we miift 
raife our next hopes from the Seed, hahynm or Sea Purfe- 
flan (of which I had a pretty hedge j is alfo perifh'd, and fo 
another of French Fur\u 3 the C)w/J are all of them fcorch'd, 
and fome to death, efpecially fuch as were kept fhorn in Py- 
ramids; but amongft great numbers, there will divers ef- 
cape, after they are well chaliizd, that is, with a tough ha- 
zel or other wand to beat off their dead and dufty leaves, 
which growing much clofer than other flirubs, hinder the 
air and dews from refrefhing the interior parts. This diici- 
pHne I ufe to all my tonfile mrubs with good fuccefs as oft as a 
winter parches them. The berry bearing 5^ W (which if 
well uaderftood and cultivated were the only beft juccedaneum 
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