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fubfided, is found highly ufeful in clearing fruit-tfees 
from the ravages of the Aphis pueeron, or vine-fretter. 
It ffiould be applied once a-day by means of an engine, 
fo as to be thrown as much as poffible on the under Tides 
of the leaves, and with confiderable force, preffing the 
fore finger upon the end of the pipe, to make it fpread 
like fmall rain, and taking care that every part of the tree 
be well watered. It ffiould be done as much as poffible 
in cloudy weather, and when the fun is off the walls. 
Where the trees have an eafterly afpeiff, they may be wa¬ 
tered about half-pa ft eleven o’clock in the forenoon, and 
In a northern one the firft thing in the morning; but, in 
a fouthern afpeff, about four o’clock in the afternoon. 
But, when northerly or eafterly winds and frofty nights 
prevail, it fnould be difcontinued till the weather becomes 
mild. The trees fhould always get dry before night, and 
newer be watered when the fun is upon them. Care mull 
likewife be taken that the grounds of the lime be not 
made ufe of, as it would make the trees have a dil'agreea- 
ble appearance; and perhaps be injurious. 
A gentleman in Dorfetffiire, having imagined that the 
crevices in the walls afforded a nidus for the eggs of the 
infect we have mentioned, determined on making an ex¬ 
periment on a peach-tree, which was nearly deftroyed by 
them, having had its young ffiobts, for feveral years, re¬ 
gularly curled by the aphis in the month of May; he 
therefore began by unnailing and matting the tree, and 
then had the wall white-waffied with a .very thick foiu- 
tion of lime, and after it was quite dry the tree was again 
naiied; the refu'11 was, that this year every tree in the 
garden, except the one on the white-waffied wall, was 
covered with the aphides, that not having any aphis (or 
blight) of any kind on it, except on the extremity of a 
branch that extended beyond the white-waffied wall; and 
the tree is in a moll vigorous and healthy ftate. If a 
darker colour is preferred, on account of its greater ab- 
i'orption of heat, foot may be added to the lime, and per¬ 
haps may contribute- to the deftruftion of the infers. 
Care mult be taken to fill up all cfevices in the wall, and 
not let the tree be touched with the white-waffi. Whe¬ 
ther the lime deftroys the eggs of the aphis, or is fo de- 
ftrutlive or difagreeable to the infe£l itfelf, as to caufe it 
to avoid the white-waffied wall, is a queition to be re- 
folved by naturalifts. 
LI'MEI-IOUSE, a village and pariffi at the extremity of 
London, eaft of Shadwell. Its original name was Lime- 
kurjfi, which, according to Stow, is a Saxon word, figni- 
fylng “ a grove of lime-trees,” and was given to this vil¬ 
lage on account of the number of thofe trees anciently 
in that neighbourhood. Limehoufe was formerly a ham¬ 
let belonging to Stepney; but, being joined to the me¬ 
tropolis by the great increafe of buildings in that part, 
the commiffioners for erecting the fifty new churches or¬ 
dered one of them to be built on this fpot. The founda¬ 
tion of this ftrufture was laid in the year 1712, and it 
•was completely finiffied in 1724; but, the inhabitants 
ne<de£ling to apply to parliament, to have the hamlet 
erected into a pariffi, till the year 1729, the church was 
not confccrated till the 12th of September, 1730, when it 
was dedicated to St. Anne. This edifice is of a very {in¬ 
sular conftruftion ; the body is not one plain building, 
but is continued under feparate portions: the door under 
the tower has a portico, covered with a dome, fupported 
by pilafters ; and to this door there is an afeent by a flight 
of fteps: the tower, which is fquaCe, has a Corinthian 
window, adorned with columns and pilafters. The cor¬ 
ners of the tower are alfo ftrengthened with pilafters, 
which fupport vafes on their tops. The upper ftage of 
the tower is plain, and exceeding heavy ; and from this 
part rifes a turret at each corner, and a more lofty one in 
the middle. This church is a redtory, the patronage of 
which, like that of St. Dunltan's, Stepney, is in the gift 
of King’s hall and Brazen-nofe college, Oxford. The 
north fide of the church-yard is 'bounded by the new 
Commercial Road from the Weft-Inuia docks, acrofs 
t 1 m 
Sfepney-fields to Whitechapel. This road is of fufficlent 
width to permit the paffage of five carts abreaft : the* 
centre is paved with Scotch granite, over which js laid a 
ftratum of gravel, eight inches in depth, which, being 
lupported by the ftone pavement underneath, is always 
firm and free from mud. 
Adjoining to this pariffi is the hamlet of Poplar, which 
formerly belonged to the pariffi of Stepney, and received 
its name from the vaft number of poplar-trees that grew 
in its neighbourhood. In 1654, the village beginning to 
increafe in the number of its inhabitants, the Eaft-India 
company gave them a piece of ground whereon to buiid 
a chapel, and fettled an annual falary on the minifter 
but this chapel, for want of an endowment, has never 
yet been conf'ecrated. In Poplar are alfo two alms-houfes, 
and an hofpital fupported by the Eaft-India company. 
Poplar-canal, or, as it is commonly, though improperly* 
called, Poplar-gut, was made about forty years ago, to 
avoid the great circuit from Bow, near which it joins th* 
river Lea, to the junction of that river with the Thames; 
and from thence round the file of Dogs, a navigation off- 
ten impeded by contrary winds and tides, and frequently 
fo adverfe as to occafion great delays. This canal is 
about a mile and a quarter in length. See Isle of Dogs, 
vol. xi. p. 408. and the article London. 
LTMEHOUSE RIV'ER, a river of Honduras, whlcfei 
runs into the bay in lat. 15. 55. N. Ion. 85. 54. W. 
LI'MENARCH, f. in antiquity, an officer or cen- 
tinel to prevent robberies and other diforders on the high¬ 
way. A warden of a fea-port. 
LIME'NIA, in ancient geography, a town of Cvprus, 
Strabo. 
LIMENTI'NUS, in heathen mythology, the god fup- 
pofed to prefide over the threffiold. 
LIM'ERIC, a county of Ireland, in the province of 
Munfter, called from the town of the fame name, which 
was, from the earlieft times in Iriffi hiftory, a place of 
confiderable importance. At the time when the Irifh 
chieftains did homage to Henry II. Daniel O’Brien, king 
of Limeric, was of the number. This prince appears to 
have been alfo fovereign of Clare, which was then called 
Thoraond. Limeric is bounded on the north by the 
counties of Clare and Tipperary, being feparated from 
the former by the river Shannon, on the weft by Kerry, 
on the fouth by Cork, and on the eaft by Tipperary. Its- 
length from eaft to weft is 40 Iriflr (51 Englifh) miles. 
Its breadth from north to fouth 25 Iriffi (32 EngliffiJ 
miles. It contains 386,750 acres, or 604 fqnare miles, 
Iriffi, equal to 622,975 acres, or 970 fquare miles, Engliffi. 
There are 125 pariffies, which by unions form 60 bene¬ 
fices, of which 33 only had pariffi-churches at the time 
Dr. Beaufort publifhed. The population was ftated by 
Dr. Beaufort at 170,000, but it mall have confidecabiy 
increafcd. The foil of Limeric is extremely good for til¬ 
lage, and very productive of grafs; efpecially thofe 
grounds which are called the coreac/is, whofe fertility is 
proverbial, and is caufed by the rich manure which is an¬ 
nually depofited by the overflowings of the Shannon. 
The heavieft and fatteft beads that are flaughtered at Cork, 
are fed in this county ; much butter is exported from it; 
the orchards produce a very fine cider, and it is by no 
means deftitute of trees and plantations. The pafture- 
fyftem, which has been bn the decline in raofl parts of 
Ireland fince the introduction of corn-bounties, propofed 
by Mr. Folter when chancellor of the exchequer, ftill con¬ 
tinues in Limeric, but is on the decline. Even when Mr. 
Young wrote in 1778, he obferved a great increafe of til¬ 
lage ; “ thrice the com grown that there was formerly 3 
much pafturage broken upon this account, fome bullock- 
iand and fome fheep-land.” The fame intelligent writer 
alfo fpeaks of improvement in the ftate of the poor; but 
this (till wants amelioration. Limeric^ though diverfified 
by fmall hills, is not at all mountainous, except on the 
fouth-eaft, where it is bounded by the Galtees,a ridge of 
formidable mountains, that extend into Tipperary, and 
