OF FRUIT AND FOREST TREES! 879 



a fermentation with the natural juices, brings on 

 disease, and in time destroys the health and vege- 

 tation of the tree. These, among other causes, 

 tend to produce decay and barrenness in fruit-trees, 

 as well as defects in timber, to the great loss of the 

 public in general, as well as essential injury to the 

 individual proprietor. 



To remove these evils, and to prevent the ill 

 consequences arising from the causes already de- 

 scribed, I submit to the experience of the public 

 a remedy discovered by myself, which has been 

 applied with never-failing success to all kinds of 

 fruit-trees, and has not only prevented further 

 decay, but actually restored vegetation and increas- 

 ed fruitfulness, even in such as were apparently 

 barren and decayed. It has produced also a 

 similar effect on forest-trees, by restoring them to 

 soundness of timber and healthful vegetation, and 

 covering, as it were, visible nakedness and in- 

 creasing decay, with fresh and vigorous foliage. 



This remedy is a Composition formerly applied 

 in the manner of a plaster, but now in a liquid 

 state, and laid over the wounded or injured part 

 of the tree with a painter's brush : it is of a soft 

 and healing nature ; possesses an absorbent and 

 adhesive quality ; and, by resisting the force of 

 washing rains, the contraction of nipping frosts, 

 and the effects of a warm sun or drying wind, 

 excludes the pernicious influence of a changeable 

 atmosphere. 



The discovery of it is the result of much re- 



