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Take a bushel of fresh cow dung, half a bushel of lime rub- 

 bish from the ceilings of old rooms, which is best, or pounded 

 chalk, or old slaked lime will answer, half a bushel of wood 

 ashes, and a sixteenth of river sand ; sift the the three last ar- 

 ticles fine before they are mixed ; work them well together by 

 beating, &c. so as completely to mix them : Then reduce the 

 mass to the consistence of thick paint, by mixing with it a suf- 

 ficient quantity of urine and soap suds, so that it can be used 

 with a brush. A good coat of this is to be applied to the nak- 

 ed wood where a limb is cut off, or the wool otherwise laid 

 bare, and the pov/der of wood ashes arid burnt bones is to be 

 sprinkled over this and gently pressed down with the hand.- 

 With this he restores all rotten decayed trees to a flourishing 

 state. To effect this, all the rotten and dead part of the tree 

 is first cut away and scraped out quite down into the roots, till 

 you come to the live wood, and then smoothed, and the edges- 

 i?ext the live bark rounded off. The composition is then laid 

 on with a brush, and covered as before directed with the pow- 

 der. As the bark of the edges grows over this covered wood, 

 it works off the composition and supplies its place, till at length 

 the bark of the two edges meet and grow together. If the 

 growing bark should raise up any flakes of the composition, sa 

 as to expose the wood, let them be pressed down with, the fin- 

 gers some rainy day, when the composition is pliable. Wherff 

 a tree would be too much weakened by cutting away all its 

 dead wood at once, cut only a part away next fhe edges, and 

 as the bark covers this, cut away more. Where limbs aye 

 cutoff, let the stumps be pared smooth and the edges round-^ 

 ed, before the composition is kid on. He says this should al- 

 ways be applied wherever a limb is cut off, in order topfeserve 

 the tree from rotting at such places. 



Fruit trees are subject to a disease called the canker. It 

 •ccasions the bark to grow rough and scabby, and turns the' 

 wood affected to a rusty brown color. It will sometimes kill 

 the tree if not remedied in due season. 



This disease may arise from various causes; from bad 

 pruning ; from dead shoots left on the tree ; from frosts kil-> 

 ling the last year's shoots, &c. 



The diseased parts are to be instantly cut away, till noth-^ 

 ing but sound white wood remains ; or if the disease be mel-e- 

 ly in the bark, the outer bark ratrst be cut away, and if the in- 

 ner bark be also affected, which is to be known by its exhib- 

 iting small black spots like the dots of a pen ; cut all away that 

 is thus affected, and let the composition be applied as befoi^e 

 directed. 



