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L Ape Ualiaua. — A'o. XX J h 



[July 1, 



sum three feet in circumference. Tliese 

 Irees were so injured by the cankered 

 state of their bodies and branches, that 

 there did not appear more tiian one- 

 sixth pai t free from canker and moss. 

 The nuserable state they were in, and 

 after losing one of them, 1 consulted a 

 nnrseiyman, who observed tlieir very 

 4dd state, and that the canker liad so 

 jnjnred them tiiat they were not worth 

 keeping. He therefore advised me to 

 cut them down and plant young ones in 

 their place. 



Oil reflecting on his observations, it 

 occurred tome to make an experiment. 

 I first planted a tree beside each of 

 them, and then proceeded in making 

 the experiment to recover them, and 1 

 have the satisfaction to say I have so 

 far succeeded, that any jM'rson looking 

 «t the branches, the slork being liid 

 from siglit, would say they were young 

 thriving trees. They are now free 

 from canker and moss, and uncom- 

 monly full of blossom. 



As there are many but little ac- 

 quainted with trees, if is necessary to 

 observe, that every tree has three rinds 

 of bark, the inward, tlie middle, and 

 the outward. 'J'his observation I 

 thought necessiiry, from a neiglil)our 

 having destroyed a grcAt number of 

 fine trees. I shall now pix)ceed to 

 state the practical infitrmafion. 



I first cleared away from the stock 

 all the outward bark and moss, so that 

 the body was dear of its outward rind ; 

 in doing this the quantity of worms, 

 •wood-lice, ear-wigs, and other insects 

 was extraordinary. I then with a sntall 

 hoe scrajjed every branch quite clean 

 from moss or n)ngh bark. I next 

 looked over the stems, and where I 

 foimd any hole that was cankered, I 

 cut out the cankered part quite clean 

 so that no insects could harbour there, 

 extending the lips of the hole to a 

 healthy part of the rind. I after\vards 

 proceed«! to the smaller bi-anches, cut- 

 ting away the cankered knobs to healthy 

 parts, and Avhere any branch crossed 

 another I cut it off. Lastly, Mifh a 

 hand-brush, made of fine whalelioue, I 

 brushed the tree over to clear axvay tlie 

 insects and their eggs. 



I adopted this mode of recovering my 

 trees four years ago. In the first yeai- 

 there was a sensible improvement." I 

 have therefore persevered in tlie prac- 

 tice every year since, and have the 

 pleasure and gratification to observe 

 that they are Imome hearers of apples 

 iu abundance. '?•*"*&" -■ S W, 



May, 1S21. 



For the MontMy Ifkn^mlite, 

 L'APE ITAIJANA. ;; 



No xxii. 



Dov' ape jtusurranHo 

 NVi maltiitiiii nllK>ri 

 Vola »iiggendo i mgiode'i unwwi. . 



Whpre the b*»e at early morn, ' 



Murmuring »ip» the dews of morn. P-' '• 



IN the 47th number of the Bibllnfrm 

 Italifinn, a literary journal ptiblish- 

 ed in Milan, we find some accotint of 

 the works of Matteo Bor a, Secretary of 

 the Hoyal Academy of INIantita. As 

 his writings are well kno-wn on the 

 ('ontinent, and distinguished for a 

 happy un ion of philosophy and taste^ we 

 shall make no apology to our readers 

 for extracting what we think may 

 prove interesting and amusing. They 

 pnrjHtse to lie a ctmtinuation t>{ the 5tn 

 volume of a series, and artr arrangied 

 according to the subject under varjons 

 beads,as" The Improvvisafori," '• The 

 Porfmlimare," " Amours," " Sorrow- 

 ful Adventures,'" " FIydn>phobia," 

 &c. &c. which we thus iuter])ret. 

 I/IMPROVVISATORK. 



On this awful occasion, I fortunately 

 recollected I was a poet, and resolved f(» 

 become an improrvisnlorr. and con- 

 sult the Lover's Maimal in my port- 

 folio, i-egularly divided info chapters, 

 with annotations and references aA 

 ft'b/'him. 



The first opens with the elements of 

 the sublime art — the esfro pnifiro it- 

 self. In this is includetl a harvest of 

 rich phrases, all fi In dnntc.tqne, limp- 

 ing sesquipedalians from the Greek, 

 invocations, deificatitms, Pindaric pro- 

 phecies, an il'^iOlian brood of tempests, 

 lightning, fires, woods and precipices, 

 night and the tombs. Then followed a 

 lK>rtable theatre full of starving virtues, 

 forlorn arts, legitimate tyrannies, &c., 

 with a magic lantern shewing the raee 

 of calamities sprung up on this and the 

 other side of the date of Troy, and tlie 

 battles which befell for at least a league 

 around, between the Trojans and the 

 (Greeks. 



The second part more particularly 

 directs us how to impro'\'visatore on one 

 foot ; provides strophes for a servant 

 coming into a room, placing a chair, 

 for a dog barking, and a porter mIio 

 steals. 1 know from experience what 

 a portfolio such as this is worth, and 

 what applanse resonnded wlien I dis- 

 played a little of it in the Place de •- • 



"But ' 



Envy wiU merit like its shade pursne,** 

 and levies to fi* its teeth, like aii epJ- 



eyre. 



