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 fe^Tis to 

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 foxglove, 



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fpongs; 



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to tsr 



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OF PLANTS. 



s hair-dreffers ufe, or the fmoke of tob 



3S'S 



Sect. XIV. 3. 2. 



by a powder-puff, fucb a 



or of any other of the poifonous leaves above mentioned 



forcibly blown on them by an adapted pair of bellows, as the fmok 



ht be 



of many of them may pofTefs as 



poifonous a quality as that of 



bacc 

 fus, and 



d even the fteam of a decodion of others, as of 



poifon of the former of which is k 



diaiUation, might probably be u fed with effed 

 pend on the greater or lefs fixity of their effential 



fteam might be applied to wall-trees by previoufly fufpend 



but this muftde- 



The fmoke 



or 



them a large (heet of mattin 



o 



pet 



but may however be 



or of kn 

 fed with 



o 



f paper 



I 



advanta 



old 



a 



in h 



houfes, than in the open 



Since the above was written I direded in the early fpring of this 

 year one neaarine-tree to be moiftened with tar- water, and parts of 



the wall to be fmeared with 



another to be moiftened with lime 



and pot-afli diffolved in water j a third with foap-fuds and lime added 

 / .1 -„j .,,r K^fK n^Acjrinf- nrid neach-trees with foaD-fuds 



them; and many both ne£l 



and peach 



alone 



This was done by means of a bru(h before any flowers ap 



peared, and was repeated th 



different days ; but to my 



D 



^ifappointment, when the leaves appeared, they became affeded with 

 the aphis as on former years. I alfo afterwards dipped many nut- 

 leaves crowded with the aphis in ftrong infufion of tobacco,, for a few 

 minutes, as the leaves hung on the trees without, as 1 believed, de- 

 flroyin'^the infers ; though fome of them appeared for a time to be 



Vcndere^orpid. 



Ncverthelefs on coverino; a low nut-tree with fome iheets of brown 



paper fewed together, ai 



d throwing the fmoke of tobacco under 



from a proper pair of bello\N 



to 



mbers of aphifes were killed 



many of which dropped from the upper leaves on thofe below them 

 and many adhered motionlefs to the under furfaces of 



fine powder of tobacco called Scotch fnuff fprinkled on 



by turning up fome of the leaves quickly deftroyed them 



Th 

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