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Show 34 ] " Breathe, gentle ArR ! frotn cherub-lips impart " rrhy balmy influence to my anguiih' d heart; 3 24 " Thou, whofe foft voice calls forth the tender blootns, " Whofe pencil paints the1n, and whofe breath perfumes; " Oh chafe the Fiend of Frofi, with leaden mace " Who feals in death-like Deep my haplefs race ; " Melt his hard heart, rclcafe his iron hand, " And give tny ivory petals to expand. 330 :md hence malt is bell: made in the fpring. 2d. The grains and roots brought from more fouthcrn btitudes germinate here foon er than thofe which arc brought from more northern ones, owing to th eir acquired habits. Fordyce on Agriculture. 3d . .It was obferved by one of the fcholars of Linneus, that the apple trees fent from hence to New England bloffomed for a few years too early for that climate, and bore no fruit; but afterwards learnt to accommodate thcmfelves to thfir new fituation. (Kalm's Travels) 4th. The parts of animals become more fenfible to heat after having been previouOy expofed t~ cold, as our hands glow on coming into the houfe after having held fnow in them ; thts fecms to happen to vegetables; for vines in grape-houfes, which have been cx~ofed to the winter's cold, will become forwarder and more vigorous than thofe wht.ch have been kept during. the win~er ~n the houfe. (Kennedy on Gardening.) Thts accounts for the very rap1d vegetatiOn 111 the northern latitudes after the folution of the fnows. . The increafe of the ir.r itability o. f plants in refpetl to heat , aft er J1 av•m g b een pre-vwuOy expofe.d to cold.' ts farther 1llufl:rated by an experiment of Dr. Walker's. He cut aptrtures mto a b1rch.tree at different hights; and on the 26th of March fome of the:e apertures bled, or oozed with the fap-juice, when the thermometer wa t . which faTm e apertures did n.o t bleed on the I 3th of March ' when the th ermomes tae r w39a s, at 44· he reafon of this I apprehend was, becaufe on the night of the '2Sth the thermometer was as low as 34 · whereas on the mcrht of th. h · 1 · . ' o e I2t 1t was at 41; though t tc w genwus author afcribes it to another caufe. Tranf. of the Ro l S f Ed' burgh, v. I, p. 19. ya oc. o m- [ 35 ] " So may each bud, that decks the brow of fpring, " Shed all its incenfe on thy wafting wing!"- To her fond prayer propitious Zephyr yields, Sweeps on his :fliding £hell through azure £elds, 0' er her fair tnan:Gon ·waves his whifpering wand, 3 35 And gives her ivory petals to expand! Gives with new life her filial train to rife, And hail with kindling fmiles the genial 1kies. So !hines the Nymph in beauty's bluiliing pride, When Zephyr wafts her deep calaili a:Gde, 3 40· Tears with rude kifs her bofom' s gauzy veil, And flings the fluttering kerchief to the gale. So bright, the folding canopy undrawn, Glides the gilt Landau o'er the ·velvet lawn, Of beaux and belles difplays the glittering throng, 345 And foft airs fan them, as they roll along. Where frowning Snowden bends his dizzy brow O'er Conway, lifiening to the furge below;· F 2 |