22 BOOK OF FRUITS. 



DISEASES INJURIOUS INSECTS, &C. 



The injuries and diseases to which fruit trees 

 are subject, are often difficult to be accounted 

 for, and the various methods devised for their 

 correction so abundant, that the space allotted 

 in this small treatise will allow us to select 

 but a few of those which we think on the 

 whole best. 



The following remedy is found to be the 

 most effective in preventing further decay, and 

 restoring a healthy vegetation, answering ^ 

 double purpose, being also an excellent graft- 

 ing composition. It is given thus : 



Take one pound of pitch, one pound of 

 rosin, half pound beeswax, quarter pound lard, 

 quarter pound turpentine, melted and mixed ; 

 spread evenly and thin, with a brush upon soft 

 kentish cap paper or strips of cotton cloth. 

 This compound will resist the force of washing 

 rains, frost, drying winds, and the influence of 

 a changeable atmosphere. 



Now prepare the tree properly for its appli- 

 cation, by cutting away all the dead, decayed, 

 and injured parts, till you come to sound 

 wood, leaving the surface very smooth, and 



