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When the trunk is become hollow, cut the loofe rotten 

 part clean out till you come to the found wood, taking: care 

 to round the edges of the hollow part ; then apply the Com- 

 pofition in a liquid ftate, laying it on with a painter's brufli 

 wherever the cankered bark has been pared off or the dead 

 wood cut out, till thefe places are entirely covered with it : 

 when that is done, make iome of the powder of wood-aihes 

 and burnt bones over the Compontion, and pat it gently 

 -down with your hand. See the Chapter On the Making 

 and Laying on of the Composition. 



If the foregoing directions be carefully followed, the canker 

 will be completely eradicated, and the hollow trunk in time 

 be. filled up with found wood. 



When the Item is much decayed, it will be abfolutely 

 neccffary to open the ground, examine the roots, and cut off 

 all the rotten parts. When you have cut out all the rotten and 

 decayed parts below ground, and fcraped the hollow clean, 

 make up a mals of the Com pofition mixed with fome clay, 

 like what is ufed for grafting ; then fill the hollow part with 

 it to within about two inches of the furface of the ground, 

 treading it in with your foot, or prefling it in with the hand, 

 as clofe v as you poflibly can, to prevent the wet from pene- 

 trating to the roots, and leave the furface of the Co m pofition 

 Hoping from the tree towards the outfide of the border, to 

 throw the wet off, which will prevent the frefh part of the 

 root from rotting ; then cover the root over with mould level 

 with the reft of the border. 



When you have examined all the old wounds where large 

 limbs have been cut off, you mould next examine the old 

 bark ; and, if you find the outfide of it wrinkled and cracked, 



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