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cases, which has lately been recommended, is that of water¬ 
ing the trees in a plentiful manner two or three times a 
week, if the weather be dry ; and during the continuance 
of the above sort of dew upon the trees, preparing the 
water with a little common salt and the fluid part of a good 
portion of broom that has been boiled. This mixture, it is 
said, effectually kills the flies, while it does no injury to the 
trees, if care has been taken not to use too large a proportion 
of salt. This practice also tends to make the trees shoot 
stronger, and to hinder such insects from breeding. 
There is another insect which has lately been found to 
be greatly injurious to apple and other fruit trees, but which 
is yet only little known to gardeners. It is the Tortrix 
waeberana, which may be seen well described in the second 
volume of the “ Transactions of the Horticultural Society of 
London.” It is there stated to be occasionally very hurtful 
to such trees, not only in the larva state, but others; and 
that its attacks are by no means confined to the diseased 
parts of such trees. The insect, in its perfect state, is a small 
moth, which is very abundant in gardens and fruit grounds. 
In what regards the means of removing and destroying 
such insects when their attacks become injurious, the hints 
given below are thrown out. The first and most essential 
process evidently is, it is thought, to cut away the edges of 
the cankery parts where they are chiefly found, making the 
wound smooth, and covering it with any composition likely 
to prevent the moth from depositing her ova or eggs there 
again. One precaution is necessary, which is to put into 
boiling-water, or to bury at a considerable depth, the cut¬ 
out pieces of decayed bark containing the larvae; which, if 
left near the tree, would soon crawl from their holes or 
other places, and remount it; thus defeating the labour of 
the horticulturalist, who often, from neglecting a slight addi¬ 
tional trouble, loses the benefit of more painful exertions. 
Where the larvae are found to have insinuated themselves 
generally into the rough bark of old trees, it would proba¬ 
bly, it is thought, be advisable to scrape off the whole of 
the lifeless bark, and such portions of the alburnum as are 
injured, as suggested by Mr. Knight on another occasion; a 
process which, there can be no doubt, it is said, would be 
advantageous to the tree in other respects, as pointed out by 
the above writer. And where projecting saw-dust-1 ike 
masses shew that the larvae has attacked even smooth-barked 
trees, the insertion of a blunt pricker into the hole would 
probably, in most cases, suffice to destroy it, and do less 
injury to the tree than suffering it to attain its growth. But 
the mode which is most to be recommended is this, as in the 
case of almost all insects hurtful to fruit or other trees, is, it 
is said, to destroy the moths themselves, by collecting them 
from otf the trees, or other places, during the summer months, 
which might be done by children properly directed and pro¬ 
vided with suitable means for the purpose, or in other ways. 
The destruction of every female moth, before the deposition 
of its eggs, may, it is said, be fairly calculated to prevent 
the existence of some hundreds of larvae ; and thus, in any 
garden or fruit-ground not in the neighbourhood of others, 
where the same methods are neglected, the whole race might, 
it is supposed, be extirpated in a few years. 
To THRIVE, v. n. pret. throve, and sometimes less pro¬ 
perly thrived, part, thriven. [Of this word there is found 
no satisfactory etymology: in the northern dialect they use 
throdden, to make grow ; perhaps throve was the original 
word, from throa, Icelandic, to encrease.] To prosper; to 
grow rich ; to advance in any thing desired. 
If lord Percy thrive not, ere the king 
Dismiss his power he means to visit us. Shakspeare. 
THRI'VER, s. One that prospers; one that grows rich. 
—He had so well improved that little stock his father left, 
as he was like to prove a thriver in the end. Hayward. 
THRIVINGLY, adv. In a prosperous way. 
THRIVING, or Thri'vingness, s. Growth; increase. 
—A careful shepherd not only turns his flock into a common 
pasture, but with particular advertence observes the thriving 
of every one. Dec. 
THRO’., contracted by barbarians from through. 
What thanks can wretched fugitives return. 
Who scatter’d thro' the world in exile mourn. Dry den, 
THROAPHAM, a parish of England, West Riding of 
Yorkshire; 10 miles south-west-by-west of Bawtry. 
THROAT, s. [Spote, Spoca, Sax.] The forepart of 
the neck; the passages of nutriment and breath. 
Wherefore could I not pronounce, amen ? 
I had most need of blessing, and amen 
Stuck in my throat. Shakspeare. 
The main road of any place. 
Her honour and her courage fry’d. 
Calm and intrepid in the very throat 
Of sulphureous war, on Teniers dreadful field. Thomson. 
To cut. the Throat. To murder; to kill by violence._ 
These bred up amongst the Englishmen, when they become 
kern, are made more fit to cut their throats. Spenser. 
THRO'ATPIPE, s. The weasand ; the windpipe. 
THROATWORT, s, A plant. Dr. Johnson. —The 
right botanical name is trachelium: it is also called Jlos 
cardinalis. Mason. 
My muse grows hoarse, and can no longer sing. 
But throatwort haste her kind relief to bring: 
The colleges with dignity enstal 
This flower, at Rome he is a cardinal. Tate's Cowley. 
THROATY, ad). Guttural. The conclusion of this ram¬ 
bling letter shall be a rhyme of certain hard throaty words. 
Howell. 
To THROB, v. n. [from SsogvGav, Gr.] Minsheu and 
Junius; formed in imitation of the sound, Skinner; perhaps 
contracted from throw up.] —To heave; to beat; to rise as 
the breast with sorrow or distress.—Here may his head live 
on my throbbing breast. Shakspeare, 
My heart throbs to know one thing: 
Shall Banquo’s issue ever reign ? Shakspeare. 
To beat; to palpitate.—In the depending orifice there was 
a throbbing of the arterial blood, as in an aneurism, the 
blood being choked in by the contused flesh. Wiseman. 
THROB, s. Heave; beat; stroke of palpitation. 
Thou talk’st 1 ike one who never felt 
Th’ impatient throbs and longings of a soul. 
That pants and reaches after distant good. Addison. 
TH ROCKING, or Thorking, a parish of England; in 
Hertfordshire ; 2 miles west-north-west of Buntingford. 
THROCKINGTON, a village of England, in Northum¬ 
berland ; 9 miles from Corbridge. 
TIIROCKLEY, a township of England, in Northumber¬ 
land ; 6j miles west-north-west of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 
TIIROCKMORTON, a hamlet of England, in Worces¬ 
tershire ; 3 miles north-east of Pershore. 
To THRODDEN, v. n. To grow; to thrive; to en¬ 
crease. North. Grose. See To Thrive. 
THROE, s. [from Spopian, Saxon, to suffer .] The 
pain of travail; the anguish of bringing children: it is like¬ 
wise written throw. 
Lucina lent not me her bed. 
But took me in my throws. Shakspeare 
Any extreme agony ; the final and mortal struggle. 
O man ! have mind of that most bitter throe. 
For as the tree does fall so lies it ever low. Spenser. 
To THROE, v. a. To put in agonies. 
The setting of thine eye and cheek proclaim a birth. 
Which th rocs thee much to yield. Shakspedre. 
TIIROGGY, a river of England, in Monmouthshire, 
which falls into the Severn, at Trinity Chapel; about 4 miles 
south-west of Chepstow. 
THROMBUS [from Srpoyfiot;, Gr. coagulated blood'], a 
clot of blood, or echymosis. 
THRONE, s. [ throne , old French ; thronus, Lat., Sr govof, 
Gr.]—A royal seat; the seat of a king. 
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