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gentle watering andfliadowingand the like , patiently 
and carefully waiting till the return of the bounty of the 
Heavens to help endeavors. 
Among Plants, Herbs, and FlorverSy there hath been 
great deftrudion alfo, and many of common ufe, as moft 
of the Artichokes of England, and winter Coleflorvers, Sage, 
Tyme, MajticJ^, Lavender, Laven-Cotton, and divers other 
were generally kili'd, except luch as happened to be new 
planted that year, and fo low that they had the enjoy- 
ment ©f the kind covering of a little Snow, which proves 
the mott xx2lX.\xx^\^ feeding, and warm covering, of any thing 
to be mentioned; but what peeped its head abore it 
feemed in great danger of being kiU'dj And as we may 
fee in the Corn-fields, that thofe lides of the Lands of 
Corn facing the South where the Snow was melted and 
the Corn deprived of its covering, the want proved dead- 
ly>. and in many places Husbandmen were forced to be- 
gin again in the ^/^r^';^^ to plough andfow other Grain; 
which may eafily teach us rather to heap Snow upon our 
Herbs, and Flowers, then fancy it a cold unkind enemy. 
But in the Flower-Garden efpecial obfervance ought to 
be taken that the Choifer ^oots of the Jjian J^anun- 
ctili, Aulmo7ieys,TQndtT NarciJJt^indidivQXS other of the 
like tendernefs and ftrangers to fuch entertainments as 
our Northern Countries afford, that if hard Frofi ^wovdd 
happen upon the Thaw and melting of fuch covering, 
fhould be fecurely covered and kept from the Froji if pof- 
fible, till the too frigid moijiure oitht I art h bedpgefted, 
which would prove pernicious even to the death and rot* 
tennefs of many ixxch^ots and Plants, 
But after all this repetition of y^rreipj- we are to com- 
fort our felve^ that fuch deftruUion and calamity happens 
but very rarely, the like having not been known in the 
memory of man, if ever before i And that withdue care 
and obfervance the growing cold might be kept off from 
fuch things as are proved to be iuipatientof it 5 which 
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