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all thefe and other fuch like, in Mountainous ^wdidrypla* 
ces ( as was before obferved^ there is brisk life and verr 
dure yet remaining though rarely to be met with, but 
however enough to retain thefeveral Jpectes among us. 
But if for the future in fuch times of extremity the fu- 
perficies of the Ground, andbodyesof fuch things here 
recited and Fi^^-trees, were well covered with Jharvy mat- 
ter to keepoffthe Frofi, it might fo preferve them as to 
fpring out plentifully the Spring following, though their 
whole tops bQ'm^ too large and high, and thereby inca- 
pable of fuch covering, might loofe their prefent leaves 
and beauty, which might from fuch refpringing beea- 
fily repaired, and prove much more fatisfadlory, then 
to begin the world anew, as we are generally forc't to 
do for fy/?r£?^/, which were us'd to be excellent Orna- 
ments both in Summer and Winter, now it proving a 
very rare thing to fee one well alive j In fome places 
there appears fome lingering life, but fcarcely fuffici- 
eiit to recover the whole, but in moft places are quite 
dead, that have faced 40, yojor 60 Winters bGiorc, Af^ 
ter fome Winters they appear fomewhat fcorch't and 
ruffet, upon which 'Eic^-, Evelyn direds the beating and 
thrafning them with a good tough Hazle waad, or fuch 
like, toeafe them of their dead leafy parts, and admit 
the refrelliiag Air to the inward parts and branches , 
but this year their difcafe is beyond the power of fucb 
a remedy, biit from Seed they will within few years be 
repaired. 
Alio among tliofe with decidueus leaves^ divers have 
been fuiterers, ^$ Arbor-Judiv^yoxxng Plane trees, though 
thole of conliderable ftature have pretty well efcaped> 
Valiunis^ The Aleppo Aih, in fome places the Ze^/<f// Tree, 
and in molt hedges the great common Bramble, and 
fome other , which upon cutting do lome or moft of 
them fpring again. 
But loch Greens alfo as we receive from, and are the 
glory 
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