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Fruit; in Standard trees it may do fome thing to prevent 
them, but the mod certain way is to prevent them in their 
places of abode, or dens. 
Wafps are likewifo fpoilers of Fruit,and maybe deftroyed 
be fetting divers Gally-pots or others, half full of water, in 
convenient places,and fmearing the tops and infides with Ho¬ 
ney,or Honey’d water; or you may hang foveral Glaffes fo 
dreffed in Inch trees, where you defire mod to preforvp your 
Fruit from filch guefts. 
Caterpillars, of which there are divers forts,but thofo are 
the worft enemies to trees and fruit which are bred by the 
Eaft wind,when trees fir ft begin to (hoot out their green buds 
or leaves, the which, fome years where they prevail, make 
filch deftru&ion, that the trees look as if they were blafted 3 
they are bred within the leaf or bud,or at leaft quickly make 
way under the fold of the buds or leaves before they be fpread 
out, and there continue until they have deftroy’d the very 
heart of the bud that is for (hoot, likewifo thofo for bloflom 
and fruit: fome,that have but a few trees and leifbre, as alfb 
a love to their fruit,have with a kind of Pump or Force made 
for that purpofo, and being fot into a tub of water, have of¬ 
ten walked their trees, both againft their walls, and others, 
whereby they have laved muchfruit,befides fome convenient 
fhoot or growth of their trees, which otherwifo might, have 
been loft. Thefe kind of Caterpillars are very prejudicial to 
young grafts, and inoculated trees,efpecially of the iirft year, 
which if not timely prevented, doth fometimes quite deftroy, 
or at leaft hinder much of their growth, & oft fpoyl the grace- 
fulnefs of their fhoot. Amongft young grafts, they muft be 
foarch’d for as I have elfo where dire&ed.Birds do much inju¬ 
ry to young Apples and Pear trees,by lighting upon the young 
and tender tops of them to foarch for Catterpillars,and there* 
by have broken them,which have caufod fome to think, and 
fay,they were eaten off by fome other kind of Vermin.Other 
forts of Catterpillars there are, which are ingendred of Spawn, 
which at fome times of the Spring you may find on divers forts 
