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PLANTS. 
more shoots, leaves, and buds; so that it was in full 
vegetation on one side, whilst frozen on the other. 
“ The continuance of the frost occasioned no 
change in any of the internal branches. They all 
continued in a very brisk and verdant state, as if 
they did not belong to the tree, which, on the out- 
side, appeared in the state of the greatest suffering. 
On the 1 5th of March, notwithstanding the seve- 
rity of the season, all was in full bloom. The ap- 
ple-tree had its root, its stem, and part of its 
branches, in the hot-house. These branches were co- 
vered with leaves and flowers ; but the branches of 
the same tree, which were carried on the outside, 
and exposed to the cold air, did not in the least 
partake of the activity of the rest, but were abso- 
lutely in the same state which all trees are in during 
winter. A rose-tree, in the same position, showed 
long shoots with leaves and buds ; it had even shot 
a vigorous branch upon its stalk ; whilst a branch 
which passed through to the outside had not begun 
to produce any thing, but was in the same state 
with other rose-trees left in the ground. This 
branch is four lines in diameter, and 18 inches 
high. 
“ The rose-tree, on the outside, was in the same 
state; but one of its branches, drawn through to the 
inside of the hot-house, was covered with leaves and 
rose-buds. It was not without astonishment that I 
saw this branch shoot as briskly as the rose-tree 
which was in the hot-house, whose roots and stalks, 
exposed as they were to the warm air, ought, it 
