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made of equal quantities of hard tallow^ 

 bees wax and rofin melted and laid on warm 

 with a brufh in a dry day > or whatever fub- 

 ftitute the owner fhall approve of. In like 

 manner all boughs wrefted off by high winds^ 

 or fuch as it is neceffary to take off when 

 dying, or dead fhould be treated. 



The emplajlrum I on ordinary occafions 

 generally ufe my felf, on taking off the 

 largeft fize of debarked boughs, (for the 

 fmaller require none) is made with the like 

 materials, but withal tempered with oil^ 

 or pork lard, to the confiftence and hard- 

 nefs only of butter ; which needs no melt* 

 ing, but may be fpread over the patency 

 Vvith the thumb. And this praftice alone I 

 find keeps out the drying winds, as well as 

 rain, whidi are equally as injurious as a 

 drying fun : And would alike caufe little 

 jifures in the parts expofed, and dry up the 

 natural moillure therein, which when dried 

 up, nothing can reftore again. And this 

 kind of balfam is laid on with all the difpatch 

 imaginable* 



Next, to anfwer, if not to fatisfy the 

 ncedlefs fcruples of any, that young Oaks of 



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