FRUIT-TREES. 281 



CHAP. XCVII. 



How to preferve Fruits from Ants, Birds, 

 Wafps, Flies, Snails, &c. 



'"r^HE ants are much complained of for 

 J[ deftroying fruit and leaves -, but 

 when borders are rightly prepared and or- 

 dered, they cannot live ; nor in old bor- 

 ders, after they have been trenched and 

 watered with the compofition mentioned 

 for that purpofe -, but it ought to be ob- 

 ferved that the ants in a border are general- 

 ly near the wall ; for which purpofe there 

 ought to be a little drill made with a hoe 

 dole to it, and that part watered the moft 

 plentifully. 



Againft old walls either of brick or ftone, 

 they are the moft troublefome, for as they 

 lodge in the nail holes, the watering of 

 the borders only has no effefl upon them : 

 but the walls fhould be watered all over 

 with two ounces of fait to a gallon of 

 water. 



It is beft to do it with a fmall engine, 

 the force of which v/ill drive them out of 



their 



