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PRODUCTION OF 



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therefi 



more liable to be bored 



and eaten by a large worn:i or maggot almoft as thick as a f^oofe- 

 quIU : which I have fcen happen to a pear-tree, fo as to confume the 

 whole Internal wood, till the tree was blown down. 



In refpetfl to the caution neceflary to be obferved in not touchino- 



the living edges of the wounded bark with fuch 



av 



jure the tree by their abforption, I remember faeing feveral youno- 

 elm trees, which dkd by their boles having been covered, as I was 

 informed, by quick-lime mixed with cow dung to prevent their be- 

 ing injured by horfes ; and I have feen branches of peach and nee- 

 tarine trees deftroyed by fprinkling thern, when in leaf, with a flio-ht 

 folution of arfenic, ai 



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d others with fpirit of turp 



curious method of 



is faid to have Succeeded 



where the bark of a tree has recently been torn off even to o-reat 



extent, and that is by binding the fame piece of bark on ao-ain, 



or 



another 



P 



from the fame 



from one of a 11 



ely adapting the edges of the bark to be applied to the ed 



that, which furrounds the wound of th 



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of 



which 



faid 



ed fc 



fee in the fame manner, as the veifels of the bark of an ino-raft 



unite with thofe of the bark of th 



flock 



fted 



which is ftndly analogous to the union of inflamed or wounded parts 



of animal bod 



the cure of the hare-lip, or the infei 

 from one perfon into the jaw of 



of 



fac 



of Tal 



If the bark over the cankered parts of apple-trees could be 



newed by paring the edges of the mortified bark to the quick, and 

 then nicely applying a piece of healthy bark from an apple-tree of in- 



ferior value, and fecuring it with an eUftic band 

 flannel, it would be a very valuable difcovery. 

 Another method, where a branch of a valuable 



to 



as a fhred of 



& 



can 



3 of being dcflroyed by canker, might be by inclofing the 



d part, and fome inches above it, in a garden-pot of earth pre 



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