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TREATISE ON THE CULTURE AND 



part be canker-eaten, I cut it clean out with a knife or chifeFr. 

 I then take of foap-fuds and urine equal parts, and with this. 

 J'Watfh the wound and the bark all round it ; and with a brufli 

 apply the Compofition mixed with wood-aihes and the pow- 

 der of burnt bones,., covering the wound all over with it. 

 Afterwards I fhake fome of the powder of wood- allies and? 

 burnt bones, mixed with an eighth part of unflaked lime 

 finely powdered and fifted, over the hollows, or where knobs 

 have been cut off*. 



At the fame, time that the trees are cleared of the cocci the 

 caterpillars Ihould. be picked off. 



The firfl time that io.bfer.ved the new coccus, which lias- 

 done fo- much mifchief to the Apple-trees about London, was, 

 in a garden of my own at Chelfea, about the year 1.78-2 or 3 u 

 and, as far as l ean learn, they were imported,, among fome Ap- 

 ple-trees, by the late Mr. Swinton^of Sloane-Street. Mr. Swin- 

 ton afterwards removed his nurfery to the King's road near 

 Chelfea College, which now goes by the name of the 

 foreign nurfery. 



Ail the gardens about Chelfea ancT Kenfmgton are now 

 very much infefted with thefe infects ; and I have frequently 

 feen them in feveral other parts of the kingdom- 



Doctor George Fordyee purchafed feveral Apple-trees at 

 the fale of the effects of Mr.. De la Tour y Editor of the 

 Courier de l* Europe ; all of which were from Mr. Swinton's 

 nurfery, and all infected with thefe infects. The Doctor gave 

 me twelve of thefe trees, which I planted, and very foon 

 cleared them of the coccus. 



Meffrs. Lee and Kennedy, Nurferymen at the Vineyard,, 

 Hammerfmith, Meflrs. Grimwood and Co. Kenfmgton, and; 

 Meffrs. Gray and Wear at Bromptoa-Park. Nurfery, have 



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