Chap. VIL of Gardenht^. 



the fame Reafon , for it is more difficult to make Plants grow 

 in Gaps and dead Places, than in a new Spot, 



If, when you have laid open a Palifade that is out of or-r 

 der, you find no other Diftemper in it but Age, or an exr 

 haufted Earth, which often happens, you may remedy it by 

 , cutting the Palifade down to four or five Foot high, or by 

 flowing it clofe with the Hedging-Bill, and bringing the 

 two Sides as near as poffible to the Mafter-Shoot, which is 

 caird Plafliing a Palifade ; this will invigorate it to make 

 new Shoots. You may likewife make Trenches on both 

 Sides, at two Foot Diftance from the Palifade, for fear of 

 hurting the Roots, and clearing out their bad Earth, ^fill 

 them up again with the heft and frefheft you can poifibly 

 get. 



A s-to the Indifpofitions that befal Trees by the War that 

 Animals, Infers and Vermin make upon them, they are not 

 without Remedy. 



The great Enemies to Trees, are Rabbets, Garden-Mice^^ 

 Moles, Caterpillars, M?}'-Bugs, Ants, Cantharides, Snails, 

 Tons, Turks, and abundance of Worms, the Names of 

 which are unknown to us. 



T H E R E are likewife other Infeds that attack Fruit-Trees^ 

 Flowers and Legumes, as Green-Bugs, Ear-Wigs, Tigers^ 

 X^izards, Bud'Cutters, Spiders, Vine-Fretters, Wafps, 

 of which I fliali fay nothing in this Place, it being no part 

 of my Subjed to treat of Fruit-Trees, and what relates tQ. 

 them. 



Rabbets dcftroy a Garden entirely > when they have 

 once found a Way into it^ they gnaw and nibble the young 

 Woods, Palifades and Kitchen-Gardens, and cut off all to- 

 the very Ground, the reft prefently dying by the Bite of 

 their Teeth, which is very dangerous. You may keep them^ 

 out, by ftopping, with Wire, the Openings of the Walls 

 and Grills by which they enter ; and if there are Burrows 

 in the Garden, you muft deftroy them by Ferrets, or by 

 fetting Gins for them, which is a very difficult Work. 



The Garden-Moufe is an Animal that digs the Earth like, 

 a Mole, and deftroys whatever it meets with within the 

 Ground. They are to betakeawithMoufe 



Snares 



