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yet which conies, and even cattle most abhor, is to 

 water, or sprinkle them with tanners liquor, viz. 

 that, which they use for dressing their hides ; or to 

 wash with slak'd lime and water, altogether as ex- 

 pedient : Also to tye thumb-bands of hay and straw 

 round them as far as they can reach. 



8. Moss, (which is an adnascent plant) is to be 

 rubb'd and scrap'd off with some fit instrument of 

 wood, which may not excorticate the tree, or with a 

 piece of hair-cloth after a sobbing rain ; or by setting 

 it on fire with a wisp of straw, about the end of 

 December, if the season be dry, as they practise it in 

 Stafford-shire ; but the most infallible art of emusca- 

 tion, is taking away the cause, (which is superfluous 

 moisture in clayie and spewing grounds) by dressing 

 with lime. 



9. Ivy is destroy 'd by digging up the roots and 

 loosning its hold : And yet even ivy it self (the 

 destruction of many fair trees) if very old, and where 

 it has long invested its support, if taken off) does 

 frequently kill the tree, by a too sudden exposure to 

 the unaccustom'd cold : Of the roots of ivy (which 

 with small industry may be made a beautiful stand- 

 ard) are made curiously polish'd, and fleck'd cups and 

 boxes, and even tables of great value. Misselto, and 

 other excrescences to be cut and broken off. But 

 the fungi (which prognosticate a fault in the liver and 

 entrails of trees, as we may call it) is remedied by abra- 

 sion, friction, interlucation and exposure to the sun. 



10. The bodies of trees are visited with canker, 

 hollowness, hornets, earwigs, snails, &c. 



11. The wind-shock is a bruise, and shiver 

 throughout the tree, -'though not constantly visible, 

 yet leading the warp from smooth renting, caused by 



