FORSYTH'S COMPOSITION. 50? 



Turkey Pine - 7 White Wood - 4 



Variegated Pine - - 26 White Scarlet - 61 



Varnished - 23 Whitleys Pine - - 13 



Vernoris - 1 3 Wilmot's Black Imperial - 11 



Vernon's Scarlet - -61 Wilmot's Early Scarlet - 47 



Virginian Scarlet - 56 Wilmot's Late Scarlet - 62 



Wellington *. 13 Wilmot's JWtu Scarlet - 62 



Weymouth Hautbois - 34? Wilmot's Scarlet - - 62 



White Alpine ' -' 2 Wilmot's Seedling - - 62 



White Bath - 24- Wilmot's Superb - - 28 



Carolina - - 24 Windsor Pine - - 23 



Chili - 24 Yellow Chili - 29 



Hautbois - - 34 Yor& JZt'ver ozrfe* - 48 



White Pine - - 24 



Mr. Forsyth's Composition. 



Mr. Forsyth, May 11. 1791, gives the following 

 directions " for making a composition for curing dis- 

 eases, defects, and injuries in all kinds of fruit and forest 

 trees, and the method of preparing the trees and laying 

 on the composition. 



" Take one bushel of fresh cow-dung, half a bushel 

 of lime rubbish of old buildings (that from the ceil- 

 ings of rooms is preferable), half a bushel of wood-ashes, 

 and a sixteenth part of a bushel of pit or river sand : 

 the three last articles are to be sifted fine before they 

 are mixed ; then work them well together with a spade, 

 and afterwards with a wooden beater, until the stuff is 

 very smooth, like fine plaster used for ceilings of rooms. 



" The composition being thus made, care must be 

 taken to prepare the tree properly for its application, 

 by cutting away all the dead, decayed, and injured part, 

 till you come at the fresh sound wood, leaving the 

 surface of the wood very smooth, and rounding off the 

 edges of the bark with a draw-knife or other instrument, 

 perfectly smooth, which must be particularly attended 

 to ; then lay on the plaster about an eighth of an inch 



