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a portable garden engine. Others may be prepared of the 

 consistency of paint, and applied to the body and limbs of 

 trees with a brush ; and some may be made into a compo- 

 sition, and used as an ointment at the time of pruning. The 

 articles alluded to are beeswax, burdock leaves, cow dung, 

 decoctions of elder, lamp-black, ley, soap-suds, soft-soap, 

 tar, tallow, turpentine, urine, vinegar, walnut leaves, and 

 whale oil soap, to which may be added such of the dry ma- 

 terials in our previous list as are dissoluble. See page 18 

 of the first part, and page 30 of the third part. 



If any of my readers, from the prevailing prejudices 

 alluded to in page 113, should feel disposed to abandon or 

 root up any of the fruit trees which have been nurtured and 

 esteemed by their forefathers, they are recommended before 

 doing so to apply some of the preceding remedies, and also 

 to follow the advice given in chapter the 13th and verse the 

 8th of St. Luke's Gospel, in reference to the barren fig tree, 

 namely, "dig about it, and dung it." If after this, it should 

 be necessary to " cut it down," get some scions of the same 

 varieties from vigorous and healthy trees, and in-gi aft them 

 on stocks, carefully raised, by which means tbe old fruits 

 will have the same chance as the new varieties ; but it will 

 be generally admitted that a new broom sweeps clean, and 

 that old things in general are too apt to be neglected. I 

 would here avail myself of the opportunity of remarking, that 

 so strong is the propensity of some persons to adopt novel- 

 ties, that they often abandon some of the best productions 

 of the garden in order to find room for other plants, merely 

 because they are new, and which they cultivate with pecu- 

 liar care ; whereas, if the same attention was bestowed on 

 the old inmates of their garden, they would prove the most 

 worthy of being cultivated and perpetuated. 



