The Conclufion. 
when there is a due mixture and proportion 
of warm and cold, wet and dry; but when 
the feafons deviate far to any extreme of 
thefe, then arc they lefs or more injurious to 
the feveral forts of vegetables, according to 
the very different degrees of hardinefs, or 
healthy latitude they enjoy. 
The different feafons in which plants thrive 
beft, feems to depend, among other caufes, on 
the very-different quantities imbibed and per- 
fpired by different kinds of plants. Thus the 
Ever-greens perfpiring little, and having 
thereby a thick, vifeid, oilyfap, they can the 
better endure the winter’s cold, and fubfift 
with little frefh nourifhment : They feem 
many of them to flourifh moft in the tempe- 
rate feafons of the year, but not fo well in 
the hotteft part of fummer, becaufe their per- 
fpiration is then fomewhat too great, in pro- 
portion to the flow afeent of thefap, which 
makes fome of them at that feafon to abate 
of their vigor : Thus fome plants, which grow 
and thrive with the flow perfpiration of Ja- 
nuary and February, perifh as the fpring ad- 
vances, and the warmth and perfpiration is 
too great for them. And thus garden Peafe 
and Beans, which are fown in what is found 
to be their proper feafon, viz. in November ■, 
January,, 
