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elder leaves are, and from thence, reafoning how much 

 more fo they mud be to thofe of a butterfly, whom 

 I conlidered as being as much fuperior to us in 

 delicacy as inferior in iize. Accordingly I took forne 

 twigs of young elder, and with them whipt the cabbage 

 plants well, but fo gently as not to hurt them, juft as the 

 butterflies firft appeared ; from which time, for thefe 

 two fummers, though the butterflies would hover 

 and flutter round them like gnomes or fylphs, yet I 

 could never fee one pitch, nor. was there I believe a 

 iingle catterpiller blown, after the plants were fo 

 whipt 5 though an adjoining bed was inferred as 

 ufual. 



2.d. Reflecting on the effects abovementioned, and 

 confidering blights as chiefly and generally ocean*- 

 oned by fmall flies, and minute infects, whofe organs 

 are proportionably finer than the former, I whipt 

 the limbs of a wall plumb tree,, as high as I could 

 reach; the leaves of which were preferved green,., 

 flouriming, and unhurt, while thofe not fix inches 

 higher, and from thence upwards, were blighted, 

 fhrivelied up, and full of worms. Some of thefe 

 laft I afterwards reftored by whipping with, and, 

 tying up, elder among them. It mult be noted, that, . 

 this tree was m full bloiTom at the time of whip- 

 ping,, which was much top late, as it mould have 

 been done once or twice before the bloflbm appeared. 

 But I conclude from the whole, that if an in- 

 fufion of elder was made in a tub of water, fo that 

 the water might be ftrongly impregnated therewith, 

 and then fprinkled over the tree, by a hand engine, 

 once every week or. fortnight, it would effectually 



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