THE SCOTS GARD'NER 



As for destroying of vermin, there are traps for 

 moles of several forms: besides, you may watch 

 and delve them up with the spade. And for mice, 

 you may have traps from Holland, or for want there- 

 of, pots maybe sunk in the earth (where they haunt) 

 till their mouths be level with the surface, half full 

 of water, covered with a little chaff, wherein they 

 drown themselves; and so do toads, asps, &c. Cast 

 away the earth where the ants lodge, supplying its 

 place with stiff clay: place cow-hoofs for the wood- 

 lice and ear- wigs to lodge in all night, and so scald 

 them early morning. Pour scalding water in the 

 nests of wasps, and hang glasses of ail mingled 

 with honey, where you would not have them fre- 

 quent. 



Dash water on the trees for caterpillars, by the 

 stroups which we get from Holland. Gather snails 

 and wormes; shoot crows, pyes, jayes, and spread 

 nets before your wall-fruit for preservation. 



See Part III. how to gather and preserve fruit, 

 and how to make cyder, &c. 



CHAPTER VI 



OF FRUITS, HEAKBS, AND BOOTS FOB THE KITCHEN 



ALL fruits whereof I spoke in the last chapter, are 



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