£98 OBSERVATIONS ON THE DISEASES, &c. 



promotes that fermentation with the natural juices, which is 

 the certain fource of difeafe and decay. 



Young, healthful, and vigorous trees, when they have been 

 injured by being wantonly cut through the bark, or from 

 other caufes, will fometimes recover themfelves, and, to all 

 outward appearance, be reftored to their original foundnefs ; 

 but when cut into planks and boards, internal blemifhes and 

 faults are difcovered in them, which appear to have been oc- 

 cafioned by the early injuries which the tree had received^ the 

 texture of the wood not uniting where the wound was origi- 

 nally given ; though, from the youthful vigour of nature, the 

 bark has clofed, and an external cure been evidently per- 

 formed. 



As a moft efficacious remedy to prevent the evils that I 

 have defcribed, with all their deftruclive confequences, and 

 to reftore found timber where the fymptoms of decay are 

 already apparent, I confidently recommend the ufe of my 

 Compofition, which, being applied in a proper manner to the 

 wounded or injured part, will infallibly prevent the bleeding 

 of trees, or the oozing of juices through the wounds of limbs, 

 or branches that have been cut off in the middle of Summer,, 

 when they are in their higheft vigour, and moft rapid flow of 

 vegetation : by which means, any wafteful difcharge of the 

 juices is prevented, and they are duly confined to their 

 natural operations of giving nourifhment, growth, and fertk 

 Hty, to their refpedtive bodies. 



By employing the propofed remedy, trees of all kind's, 

 whether in gardens or orchards, ia parks or forefts, may with 

 greater fafety and advantage be pruned or lopped in the 

 Spring, or early in the Summer, than in the Winter feafon i 

 as the Compofition, when properly applied, repels the flow of 



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