7 8 Vegetable Staticks. 
“ and many others, which were defltoyed 
“ to the ground, and were by many peo- 
“ pie pulled up and thrown away ; but in 
“ warm dry foils, where they were fuffer- 
“ ed to remain undifturbed, many of them 
“ broke out from the root again, tho’ it 
“ was very late in the fummer before they 
“ (hewed any figns of recovery. 
“ The Plants in the Confervatories fuf- 
“ fered very much by being fo long (hut 
“ up clofe ; for the days being for the mod 
“ part cloudy, and the wind blowing Very 
“ (harp, the windows of the Green-houfes 
“ could not be with fafety opened, which 
“ occafioned a noxious damp in the houfes, 
** whereby the Plants became (Ickly, lan- 
“ guifhed and decayed foon after. 
“ Nor was the Frod more fevere with us 
“ than in other parts of Europe, but on 
“ the contrary in comparifon favourable, 
“ for in the Southern parts of France the 
“ Olives, Myrtles, Ciftus’s, and other 
« Trees and Shrubs, which grow there al- 
“ mod fpontaneoufly, were dedroyed; and 
“ in the Northern parts of France, as a- 
cc bout Far is, &c. the buds of many kinds 
<c of fruit-trees were dedroyed, although 
,c clofed fo that many of them never open* 
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