A difcourfe concerning the eft'efts^}/ the great Frofi^ 
on Trees and either Plants Anno 1683. drawn 
from the avfwers to fome Queries fent into divers 
Countries by Dr. Rob Plot S.RS. and from [eve- 
ral OMerw^tionsmadeat Oxford, by the skilful 
^ Botaniji Mr. Jacob Bobart. 
TH E Cold now approaching and threatning, eafi- 
ly puts us in mind of the rigour and leverity of 
the laft unparallel'd /wherein Men, Beafts, 
Vegetables, andmoft part of what had any life in it, 
felt its cruel ajGTaults ,v fome proving able to withftand, 
and other forced to fuffer under it's fo unufiial andrade 
a feafon; which extream /:(?Wand/r<?/ happening in our 
time , gave oGcafibn of taking notice of fome of it's 
extraordinary ejfeBs^ which to ennumerate in the feve,- 
ral parts of the Creation^ and difcourle of each fubjeit 
and what operation it had upon each part thereof, might 
rather employ a large /^o/^z/w^, then a difcourfe, thepre- 
fent intention being only to give fome relation ot its 
working among Vegetables^ and to incite others for the 
future to the confidefation of the proce^dure of the cold, 
and how it operates upon fuch bodyes, that thereby we 
may, being fore-warned, be in fome mealure prepared 
for the better prefetvatiou^ and defence ol many things 
in that nature in; other winters^ .th^ mildeft and beft 
whereof, proves troufelefoi^fe to m^ny Plants- though in 
the general it does kindnels to the ^^r/^/;, and it's future 
produd. I 
*^n thiSj rigid feafon nothing feemed more furprizing 
to us, nor more generally ki^owii to be true, then the 
cleaving or fplitting of Tj-ees, in the time of the hard, 
Froft: Xo endeavour therefore for what fatisfad:ioni 
could l>e obtained in this particular the Learned Dr. 
Plot fent thefe C^eries following to feveral Perfons of 
