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feathers continue anything frefhand dry, there will neither 
Crows nor Jack-Dawscomeneartomeddle with your Peafe, 
nor with your Cherries, I believe, after they have feen that 
fight. 
Snails arelikewife great enemies to Wall-fruit,and efpeci- 
ally to the beft forts of Ne&arins 5 you are to fearch for 
them betimes in the morning, or when it raineth, at which 
timestheyiwillbeflirringabout} atother times you may find, 
them in the holes of your wall, if there be any, or in other 
fhady places behind weeds or herbs, that grow againft walls 
or pails j'alfo if in feveral places near your trees,you fot fome 
finall boards ends,or the like, leaning or lying fomething hol¬ 
low under, or behind which the Snails will creep for fhelter 
from the Sun, where you may take them and deft roy them. 
Earwigs may be taken anddeftroyed,ifin divers places of 
your Garden you flick fome piece of Canes,or great Kixes of 
Hemlock, hung or thick with the hollow end downward,fo 
as they creep in jalfo the hoofs of Cattle hung on the tops of 
flicks in divers places,into which they will creep for fhelter, 
and once a day to take thole Canes or hoofs and knock them 
on the ground, and deflroy the Earwigs with your foot, 
Pifs-ants are another fort oftroublefom gueffc in a Garden, 
and amongfl Fruits, you mufl fearch out their hills or place 
of abode, and having provided fome foalding water, open 
the grounga little,and pour your water into their hold or ha¬ 
bitation. Another way which fome have ufed'to deflroy them, 
is by making fome finall boxes of Cards, in the which they 
have put fome Sugar, being firfl mingled with fome Mercury, 
and beaten very fine, making fome holes in the boxes of 
fuch a bignefsonlyas Pifs-ants may creepin, left you ihould 
deflroy Bees 5 thefe boxes are to be hung orfet inconvenient 
places where the Pifs-ants do haunt. Some life Brimftonc- 
powder to flop the paflages out of their holds or habitati¬ 
ons, others ufe Tarr, or fome other Gummy ftuft^to anoint 
round the foot of their trees, where they go up to eat their 
G Fruit ^ . 
