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the young and tender Shoots feem 

 to be much infeded, wafh them 

 with a woollen Cloth, fo as to 

 clear them, if polViblc, from all 

 this glutinous Matter, that their 

 Refpiration and Perfpiration may 

 not be obftru6ted ; and if we place 

 fome broad flat Pans or Tubs of 

 Water near the Trees, that the 

 Vapours exhaled from it may be 

 received by the Trees, it will keep 

 their tender Parts in a dudtile State, 

 and greatly help them ; but when- 

 ever this Operation of wafhing the 

 Trees is performed, it fhould be 

 early in the Day, that the Moifture 

 may he exhal'd before the Cold of 

 the Night comes on, efpecially if 

 the Nights are frofty; nor fhould 

 it be done when the Sun fhines 

 very hot upon the Wall, which 

 would be fubjed to fcorch up the 

 tender Bloffoms. 



Another Caufe of Blights in the 

 Spring, is fharp hoary Frolls, which 

 are often fucceeded by hot Sun 

 (hine in the Day Time, which is 

 the moft liidden and certain De- 

 ftroyer of Fruits that is known j 

 for the Cold of the Night ftarves 

 the tender Parts of the Bloflbms, 

 and the Sun riling hot upon the 

 Walls before the Moifture is dry'd 

 from the BlolToms, (which being in 

 fmall Globules, doth colle6t the 

 Rays of the Sun), a fcalding Heat 

 is thereby acquired , which fcorches' 

 the tender Flowers and other Parts 

 of Plants. 



But that Blights are frequently 

 no more than an inward Weaknels 

 or Diftemper in Trees, will evi- 

 dently appear, if we conlider, how 

 often it happens that Trees againft 

 the fame Wall expos'd to the lame 

 Afpect, and equally enjoying the 

 A -1 vantages of Sun and Air, with 

 every other Circumllance which 

 might render them equally healthy, 



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^et very often are obferv'd to ^if" 

 fer greatly in their Strength an(^ 

 Vigour ; and as often do we obferve 

 the weak Trees to be continually 

 blighted, when the vigorous ones 

 in the fame Situation fhall cfcapc 

 very well; which muft therefore, 

 in a great meaiure, be afcribed to 

 their healthy Conftitution : This 

 Weaknefs therefore in Trees, muft 

 proceed either for want of a fur- 

 ficient Supply of Nourifhment to 

 maintain it in perfedt Vigour, or 

 from fbme ill Qualities in the Soil 

 where it grows, or perhaps from 

 fome bad Quality in the Stock, or 

 inbred Dillemper of the Bud or 

 Cyon, which it had imbibed from 

 its Mother Tree, or from Mifma- 

 nagement in the Pruning, c^r. all 

 which are produ6tive of Diflem- 

 pers in Trees, which are with 

 Difficulty cured. Now if it was 

 occalion'd by a Weaknefs in the 

 Tree, we fhould endeavour to trace 

 out the true Caufe, firft, whether 

 it has been occafion'd by ill Ma- 

 nagement in the Pruning, which 

 ii too often the Cafe, for how com- 

 mon is it to obferve Vmch-trets 

 train'd up to the full Length of 

 their Branches every Vear, fo as to 

 be carried to the Top of the Wall 

 in a few Years after planting, when 

 at the fame Time the Shoots have 

 been fb weak, as fcarcely to have 

 Strength to produce their Flowers; 

 but this being the utmofl of their 

 Vigour, the BlolToms fall off, and 

 many Times the Branches decay, 

 eicher the grcatefl: Part of their 

 Length, or quite down to the Place 

 where they were produced ; and 

 this, whenever it happens to be the 

 Cafe, is afcribed to a Blight, 



Others there are who iuffer their 

 Trees to grow juft an they are na- 

 turally difpofed during the Sum- 

 mer Seafon, without flopping oi 

 Shoots, 



