£6 The Englijh Gardner. 
Miffeltow is another inconvenience to trees,robbing them 
of fom e ufeful lap or nourifhment, which might be better 
imployed, and therefore to be cut off where it appears. 
Gum is another evil hapning to thofe trees that bear 
Stone-fruit 3 I know no other cure, but to cut it pretty 
clofe where it doth iffue out, the which will in time heal up 
again} fome grounds are very fubjed to it, in fo much that 
any little drain or bruife inclines to breed Gum, which 
fometimes fpoils Peaches, Apricocks, &c. 
And befides the difeafes that trees are fubjed to, the fruit 
is often dedroyed or defaced by fome kinds of vermin, alfo 
Birds, the which doth mod mifohief in the Winter, by peck¬ 
ing off the bloffom-buds: in hard Frody or Snowy weather, 
they do likewife fpoil Cherries, the which both Jack-Daws 
and Jayes do: amongd fmall Birds the Tom-tit and Bull¬ 
finches do mod mifchief, the which with Lime-twigs convex 
niently fet, you may take many of them in hard weather, on 
your Plumb and Apricock trees, or you may Dedroy many 
with a good Trunck, or Stone-bow 3 as for Jays, Mag-pyes, 
and Jack-Daws,they are to be dedroyed by {hooting them, 
or with Springs, by them that know how to fet them for 
the purpofe, which fome do 5 fome do take of thefo Fowls 
' alive, and tye them in fome convenient place, where they 
will fcrame or cry,efpecially the Jay,and will caufe divers of 
their kind to gather together,by which means you may make 
greater dedru&ion amongd them with your Gun: they that 
dwell near Woods may make good ufe of this experiment. 
Crows and Jack-daws are great d edroyers of Peafe & Cher¬ 
ries they may be frighted from coming to your Peafe or wheat, 
as I have made tryal divers times, and for any thing I know 
to the contrary, may be as effeftual for the prefervation of 
Cherries, if you fhoot one or two, or more, if your ground 
be very large,and then in fome open place near where they 
hunt, make a hole about the breadth of a Bufhel, and as deep, 
or more, and then pull your Crow,or the like, and dick and 
fcatter the feathers all about the hole,and fome in the hole,and 
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