EffeSls of Elder hi prefervhig Vlanti frQtn InfeBs, 5^ 



proportion, was lately a bleak, fvvampy, and fterile wafte, 

 mult want umlerftauding to comprehend, orfympathy to ap- 

 preciate, the happincis ot'his fellow-creatures. 



Mr. Boukou is now in his fevcnty-third year, and he ap- 

 pears to poflefs the hilarity of youtli. Extraordinary exer- 

 tions, often both of body and mind, feem not to have im- 

 paired a conftitution which nmft have been naturally robuft. 

 He is fond of inufic, and takes great delight in the company 

 of vouug people. Oile Ion, a yomig man ot eonfiderable 

 acconiplifhnient and great proniifc in his father's line, and 

 one daughter, both of them unmarried, have furvived their 

 mother. Mr. Boulton is fellow of the Royal Societies of 

 London and Edinburgh, and of the Free Economical Soci- 

 ety of Petcrlburgh, asVell as of many other foreign institu- 

 tions. 



XI. On the 'EjfeSts of Elder in prefervhig Plants from InfQs 

 and tiles, Ry M. Chrxstophe Gullet *. 



V>OMMON elder has appeared to me ufeful, ift, for pre- 

 venting cabbage plants from being devoured or damaged by 

 caterp'dlars : 2d, to prevent blights, and their effeSs on fruit- 

 and other trees : 3d, to preferve corn from yellow flies and 

 other infects : 4lh, to fecure turnips from the ravage of flies, 



&CC. 



I ft, The ftrong and fetid odour of a bunch of elder leaves 

 "induced me to think that different kinds of butterflies might 

 be incommoded by it in proportion to their delicacy. I there- 

 fore took fome young twigs of elder, at the period when but- 

 terflies beean to .appear, and whipped w-ell with them fome 

 cabbage plants, b\it in fuch a manner as not to damage them. 

 Since "hat time, during two fummers, though the butterflies 

 hovered round the plants, I never faw one of them fettle on 

 them ; and I do not think that a Angle butterfly was hatched 

 on the cabbages treated in this manner, though a neigh- 

 Tbouring board was dirtied by them in the ufual manner. 



2d, After a Ihort rcfleftion on the eftecls here mentioned, 

 and on blights, which, in my opinion, are chiefly occafioncd 

 by fmall flies and fmall inlefts whole organs are Hill more 

 delicate than thofe of the former, I was induced to whip in 

 the fame maniicr v.ith.clder twigs, as hi^h as I could reaoli, 

 the branches of a plum-tree which grew m an efpalier. The 



* frgm :!ic B:i/llothi(iUi Pkjf.o-aonomi.^uc, Ann C 



whipped 



