two, which arc apt to tempt Gardners to fet out their Plants, 
before the end of April, or that we find the wife Mulberry put 
forth; which is certainly the moft faithful monitor; nor 
fhould wc indeed, cut, or tranfplant any of the t^rmnlaU till 
'Of themfelves they begin to fprout. 
I need fay nothing of of U»llj^ Tew^ Box, Juniper, &c, (har- 
dy and fponteous to our Country) and yet to my grief again, 
I find an holly ftandard ot near loo years old, drooping,and 
of doubtful afped: ; and a very beautiful hedge (tho indeed 
much younger j being clip'd about Michaelmas, is mortified 
near a foot beneath the top, and in fome places to the very 
ground \ fo as there's nothing feems proof againft fuch a 
Winter s which is late cut, and expos'd. This hedge does al- 
fo grow againft the South, and is very rufTet, whillt the con- 
trary fide is as frefh and green as ever; and in aU other places 
of my Plantations that are fhaded, the unfhorn UuUm main- 
tain "their verdure, and are I judge impregnable againft all 
aflaults of Weather. 
Among the fruit Trees, and Murals, none feem to have 
fuffer'd fave i^^r^^ ; but they being cut down, will fpring again 
at the root. The 'fl^/^^'^ have efcaped ; and of the efculent 
Plants and Salads moft, except Artichokes, which are univer- 
fally loft ; and (what I prefer before any Salad whatever ea- 
ten raw, when youngj my Sampter is all rotted to the very 
root : how to repair my lofs, I know not, for I could never 
ma|<e any of the feed, which came from the rock Sampre 
f tho mine were of the very kind) to grow 
The arborefcent and other ^W//wy, Aloes, &c, (tho hous'd) 
perifh'd with me ; but the Tucca, and Opunua efcap'd Tulips 
many are loft, and fo the Conftantimfk Nardfi/s, and fuch 
herof^ as were not kept in the chimney corner where was con- 
tinual fire : fome Ancmonies appear, but I believe many are 
rotted ; but i have made no great fearch in the flowery 
Farrerr, only I find that moft capillaries fpring, and other 
humble, and repent Plants notwithftandmg all this rigo- 
rous feafon. 
My Tortoife (which by his conftant burying himfelf in iJie 
Earth at approach of Winter I look upon as a kind of Pmi- 
Animal) hapning to be obftrudted by a Vine-root, from mi- 
ning to the depth, he was ufually wont tointerr, is found 
ftark dead, after having many years efcaped the fevereft 
Winter. Of Fijh l have loft very few ; and the Ntghtingais 
(which 
