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Snails. Set tiles, bricks, or boards hollow 

 against the wall, pales, &c. and they will creep 

 under them for shelter, about Michaelmas they 

 get to such places for security the whole winter, 

 except you prevent it by destroying them in De- 

 cember, which is the easiest, best, and surest 

 way to destroy them . 



Snails; the gardener's way. 



Besides what is wrote above, they seek them 



by break of day, or after rain, when they come 



out of the earth to feed, and are easily killed. 



You ought to keep out of gardens dogs and cats. 



To Ml Flies. 



Take white hellebore, and steep it in milk or 

 sweet wine, and sprinkle the room they come to, 

 and they will die. 



Flies. Take origanum and alum, and beat 

 them, and mix them with milk, and sprinkle them 

 about the room, kills them. 



To gather Flies together. 



Beat coriander seed, and put it in a deep 

 earthern pot, and all the flies will gather to it. 



Flies. Treacle and water put into an earthern 



dish pretty thick with treacle or honey, they will 



light in it and stick. Or. dregs of sugar and 



water mixed, they will come to it and be drowned. 



That Flies may not trouble Cattle. 



Boil bay berries in oil, and anoint them with 

 it, and they will never sit on cattle; or, wet the 

 hair of horses with the juice of the leaves of 

 gourds at Midsummer, and they will not molest 

 them. If cattle are anointed with the juice of ars- 

 mart, flies will not come near them, though it is 

 the heat of summer. 



