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 To prevent Frogs croaking. 



Set a lanthorn and candle upon the side of the 

 water or river that waters your garden, it is done. 

 Toads will not come near sage if rue is planted 

 about it. 



Snakes and Adders, to drive from the garden. 



Wormwood planted in divers places, they will 

 not come near it. 



Snakes and Adders. 



Smoke the places with hartshorn, or lily roots, 

 burning in a fire pan, and they will fly from the 

 place. 



Snakes and Adders. The roots of centaury 

 laid about your ground, will make them depart; or, 

 lay deer suet about the place, and they will be 

 gone. 



For the Bite or Sting of a Snake or Adder. 



Take the juice of ash tree leaves squeezed into 

 good white wine or beer, and drink it, and wash 

 with it, then cover the place stung with ash tree 

 leaves, and it cures you, says Agrippa. 



Snakes, Adders, Blue Worms, &c. 



In April or May, lay fresh dung in places 

 where they come, and they will resort to it. In 

 July or August turn up the dunghill, and you will 

 both find their eggs and many of them, which de- 

 stroy; do this two or three times in a summer. 



Pismires, Flies, Earwigs, and Spiders, that 

 hurt Orange Trees, Carnations, &Pc. 



These are very troublesome vermin in a gar- 

 den, especially where carnations are preserved; 

 for they are so fond of these flowers, that if care 

 is not taken to prevent them, they will entirely 

 destroy them, by eating off the sweet part at the 

 bottom of the leaves. 



