7 6 Vegetable Stanch. 
“ Chelfea, which are near 40 feet high, 
“ and a fathom in Circumference, were 
“ disbarked almoft from the bottom to 
“ the top, on the Weft fide of the trees. 
“ And in a nurfery belonging to Mr. Fran- 
“ cis Hurjl great numbers of large Pear- 
“ trees were all of them disbarked on the 
“ Weft or South-Weft fides of ’em. And 
“ in leveral other places I obferved the 
“ like accident, and found it was conftant- 
“ ly on the fame fide of the trees. 
“ About the middle of December the 
“ Froft abated of its Intenfenefs, and feem- 
“ ed to be at a ftand, till the 23d of the 
“ month, when the wind blew extreme 
“ fharp and cold from the Eaft, and the 
“ froft continued very hard to the 28th day, 
“ at which time it began to abate again, 
“ and feemed to be going off, the wind 
“ changing to the South; but it did not 
“ continue long in this point, before it 
<c changed to the Eaft again, and the froft 
“ returned, tho’ not fo violent as before. 
“ Thus the weather continued for the 
“ moft part frofty, till the middle of March, 
“•with a few intervals of mild weather; 
“ which brought forward fomeofthe early 
“ flowers, but the cold returning, foon de- 
“ ftroyed 
