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We may obferve Trees all the Winter wliile the jap 
remains condenfed to be fafe and well, but if a flatterr 
ing too early glance happens in the Spring to fet their 
farts iwa^ion, and the juices to btcomcfimd, and a fad- 
den mutation of that; warmth to a frefh return oiWinter^ 
(which tQo frequeatly happens in England) that then 
we have not only our hopes of that )qms fruits blafted, 
h^t^VQXithQ parages mthQ branches and boughs (topped, 
^nd the crude f'ap iettleing commonly called bliting 
(xho there be imany caufes of the effedts which go under 
that notion J becomes a «^f^/^/^/^ in Tr^^j- equal to that of 
Child'blanes m juvenile blood, which iometimjes takes 
whole trees ^ and fometimes branches only j Hence is fup- 
pofed the decay of the Glaftenbury Thome, whofe arifing 
-time being between Michaelmas and Chriftmas being fap- 
pily prepared by the beginning of the hard Frojf, which 
.hath almoft affrighted it out of its life. 
Some Trees and Shrubs feem to have their Veflels and 
pafTages fo ftreightened and as it were flirunk with cold^ 
tha.t they appear equal to a human body /ineiv-Jbrunj^or 
paralytich^ that is not without much trouble able to 
move or bear his decaying limbs j Thus we fee Trees 
with their barhe khriveled, with their pafTages half ftopt, 
whofe fap xiO'N only (queezing and difficultly paffing, 
hath much ado toiorce its way through the dryedand 
nain*ow pores apd pafTages of the i'Wy ^nd branches, and 
fometimes this diftemper is fo prevalent that whole 
branches of a Tree are kiird when the other part is indif- 
ferent well. 
Some Liquids fuch as Ejfential Oyles dorather fhrink 
than encreafe being/roi^r/2jand Efnpereumatical Oyles will 
hardly /r^^;^<? but waft, whichconfiderations may Intro- 
duce the thoughts of what fome Trees are made of, or 
do abound in/ as Hrr/, Pines, dic. which are capable of 
enduring the cold of Norway and other Countries. 
Thefe and many other inch con/lderations here, but 
fome 
