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16 An eastern exposure, though favourable to the vine, is less so than one to the south, as it is generally observed, that vines looking to the east, are more injured by frost. The rays of the rising sun striking suddenly on the tender leaves and flower of a plant, frozen during a cold night, has the effect of burning and destroying them, in the same manner as mortification is the consequence of exposing to a sudden heat, a limb which has been frost-bitten.