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juices, brings on difeafe, and in time deftroys the health and 

 vegetation of the tree. Thefe, among other caufes, tend to 

 produce decay and barrennefs in fruit-trees, as well as defects 

 in timber, to the great lofs of the public in general, as well as 

 efTential injury to the individual proprietor. 



To remove thefe evils, and to prevent the ill confequences 

 arifmg from the caufes already defcribed, I fubmit to the ex- 

 perience of the public a remedy difcovered by myfelf, which 

 has been applied with never-failing fuccefs to all kinds of 

 fruit-trees, and has not only prevented further decay, but 

 actually reftored vegetation and increafed fruitfulnefs, even in 

 fuch as were apparently barren and decayed. It has produced 

 alfo a fimilar effea on forefl-trees, by reftoring them to 

 foundnefs of timber and healthful vegetation, and covering, 

 as it were ? :vifible nakednefs and increafmg decay,, with frefh 

 and vigorous foliage- 



This remedy is a Compofition formerly applied in the man- 

 ner of a plafter, but now in a liquid ftate, and laid over 

 the wounded or injured part of the tree with: a painter's brufh : 

 it is of a foft and healing nature ; poffeffes an abforbent and 

 adhefive quality ; and, by refilling the force of wafhing rains, 

 the contraction of nipping frofts, and the effects of a warm 

 fun or drying winds, excludes the pernicious influence of a 

 changeable atmofphere. • 



The difcovery of it is the remit of much reflection and 

 ftudy during a long courfe of years, and of a great variety of 

 experiments, made, at a very confiderable expence, to afcer- 

 tain the efficacious powers of the application. Nor ihall I 

 hefitate a moment to declare my firm belief, that wherever it 

 fhall be properly, applied by the proprietors of gardens, or- 

 ehards, and woods, it will be productive of all the advantage 



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