414 OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, &C. 



No. VIL 



Additional Directions for making and using the Composition, 



To the foregoing directions for making and ap- 

 plying the Composition, it is necessary to add the 

 following. 



As the best way of using the Composition is 

 found, by experience, to be in a liquid state ; it 

 must, therefore, be reduced to the consistence 

 of a pretty thick paint, by mixing it up with a 

 sufficient quantity of urine and soap-suds, and laid 

 on with a painter's brush. The powder of wood- 

 ashes and burnt bones is to be applied as before 

 directed, patting it down wdth the hand. 



When trees are become hollow, you must scoop 

 out all the rotten, loose, and dead parts of the 

 trunk till you come to the solid wood, leaving the 

 surface smooth ; then cover the hollow, and every 

 part where the canker has been cut out, or branches 

 lopped offi with the Composition ; and, as the 

 edges grow, take care not to let the new wood 

 come in contact with the dead, part of which it 

 may be sometimes necessary to leave ; but cut out 

 the old dead wood as the new advances, keeping a 

 hollow between them, to allow the new wood 

 room to extend itself i and thereby fill up the 



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