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No. 7. 



Additional I^irections for making and using the Composition^ 



TTo the foregoing directions for making and applying the 

 composition, it is necessary to add the following. 



As the best way of using the composition is found, by ex- 

 perience, to be in a liquid state ; it must, therefore, be re- 

 duced to the consistence of pretty thick paint, by mixing it up 

 with a sufficient quantity of urine and soap-suds, and laid on 

 with a painter's brush. The powder of wood-ashes and burnt 

 bones is to be applied as before directed, patting it down with 

 the hand- 

 When trees are become hollow, you must scoop out all 

 the rotten, loose, and dead parts of the trunk till you come to 

 the solid wood, leaving the surface smooth ; then cover the 

 hollow, and every part where the canker has been cut out, or 

 branches lopped off, with the composition ; and, as the edges 

 grow, take care not to let the new wood come in contact with 

 the dead, part of v/hich it may be sometimes necessary to 

 leave; but cut out the old dead wood as the new advances, 

 keeping a hollow betv/een theiTi, to allow the new wood room 

 to extend itself, and thereby fill up the cavity, which it will do 

 in time, so as to make as it v/ere a new tree. If the cavity be 

 large, you may cut away as much at one operation as will be 

 sufficient for three years. But in this you are to be guided by 

 the size of the wound, and other circumstances. When the 

 new wood, advancing from both sides of the wound, has al- 

 most met, cut off the bark from both the edges, that the solid 

 wood may join, which, if properly managed, it will do, leav- 

 ing only a slight seam in the bark. If the tree be very much 

 decayed, do not cut away all the dead wood at once, which 

 would weaken the tree too much, if a standard, and endanger 

 its being blown down by the wind. It will, therefore, be ne- 

 cessary to leave part of the dead v/ood, at. first to strengthen 

 th e tree, and to cut it out by degrees as the new wood is formed. 

 If there be any canker, or gum oozing, the infected parts must 

 be pared off, or cut out with a proper instrument. When the 

 stem is very much decayed, and hollow, it will be necessary 

 to open the ground and examine the roots ; then proceed as 

 directed for hollow peach-trees; {See Plates and 5, v/hich 



