MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c- 



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, Sings, 



Thefe infers are frequently found harbouring about the 

 foundations of walls, and about the roots of Peafe, Let- 

 tuce, &c. They may be picked off and killed, by putting them 

 .into a pot in which is a little fine unflaked lime ; or the 

 ground where they are fhould be well watered with foap-fuds^ 

 and urine, mixed with tobacco- water. When they are 

 numerous on the furface of the ground, which frequently 

 happens after rain, or in a dewy morning, fine unflaked lime 

 thrown over the borders,. &c. will deftroy them. But I pre- 

 fer the above mixture, which, if the ground be well watered 

 with it, will bring them up out of their holes, when they 

 very foon die : it will alfo deftroy their eggs, which they 

 always depofit in the earth, 



Snails. 



Snails, during the winter, gather themfelves together in* 

 clufters ; and in that feafon are frequently found in great 

 numbers behind wall-trees, and in holes of the walls. They 

 mult be carefully picked off and crulned, which is the only 

 effectual way of getting rid of them. If any fhould efcape, 

 they mould be deffroyed as they make their appearance in the 

 fpring. As they alfo depofit their eggs in the ground, the 

 borders mould be well watered, as directed for flugs. 



