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Show the heads of the Poppies: This done witha good wand or cudgel, at the decreafé in the Spring and now and thenin Summer > killsit in a year oriwo beyond the vulgar wayof Mowing, or burning, which rather encreafes than diminifhesit. Sy. 4. Over-much Wet is to be drain’d by Trexches , whereit infefts the Roots of fuch kinds as require drier ground : But ifa drip do fret into the body of aTreebythe head: (which will certainlydecay it) cutting firftthe place fmooth , feop and cover it with /oam and hay till a new bark fucceed. Thefe infeft the Bark; Barkbound, Teredo, or Worm, Conys, Mdofs, luy, &c. 5. The Bark: bound are to bereleafed by drawing your knife rind-deep from the Root , as far as you can conveniently ; andif the gaping be much, filling the rift witha little Com-dung; dothis on each fide , and at Spring, February or March; alfo cutting of fome branchesis profitable; efpecially. fuch asare blaffed or lightning ftruck, 6» The Teredo, Coffiand other Worms y lying between the Body and the Bark, poyfon that paflage to the great prejudice of fome Trees 5 but the holes being once found, they are to, be taken out A Difcourfe of Forett-Trees. 10. The Bodies of Trees are vifited with Canker, Hollowneff, Hornets, Karwigs, Snails, &¢, 11. The Wind-foockis a bruife and shiver throughout the Tree, though not conftantly wifible, yet leading the Warp from {mooth renting 5 caufed by over-powerful Winds , when young , and perhaps, by fubtil Lightzings : The beft prevention is Jhelter , choyce ofplace for the Plantation, frequent /hreading whilft they are yet in their youth. 12. Cankers (caufed by fome ftroak or galling) are to be cui out tothe quick, the fears emplaifired with Tar mingled with oii, and over that a thin fpreading of /oams or elfe with clay and Horfedungs but beft with hogs-dung alone , bound to it ina rage or by laying Wood-afhes , Nettles , or Ferz to the roots 9» &c. But if the Gangreen be within, it muft be cured by xitrows , /ulphi- reows and drying applications, and by no means, by any thing of an uniious nature, whichis exitial to Trees. Tar as was faid , onely excepted, which I have experimentally knownto preferve Trees from the envenom’d teeth of Goats , and otherinjuries; the intireflem fmar'd over , without the leaft prejudice to my no fmall admiration. 13. Hollownef is contracted, when by reafon of the ignorant or carelefs lopping of a Tree the wet is fuffer'd tofall perpendicularly with a light Incifion, and the Wood pecker , and other Birds often pitching upon the fre, as you may obferve them, and knocking upon part, efpecially the Head: In thiscafe if there be fufficienc found wood , cut it tothe quick, and clofe to the body , and cap the hollow part with a Tarpaulin,orfillit with good {tiffJoam , and fine 7. Conies and Hares by barking the Trees in hard Winters , fpoil Elis moft obnoxious, 14. Hornets and Wafps , Gc. by breeding in the hollownefs of Trees infect them , and are therefore tobe deftroy’d by ftopping up their entrances with Tar and Goof-dung , or by conveying the fumes ofbrimftone into their Cells. 15. Earwigs and Suails do feldom infeft Foreff-trees., but thofe which are Fruit-bearers , and are deftroy'd byenticing them into {weet waters , and by picking the Sxails off betimes in the Aforning, and rainy Evenings: ladvife you to vifite your Cypreffe-Trees on the firft Rains in April, you fhall fometimes find them cover’d with young /zaz/es no bigger than {mall peafe: Laftly, Branches, Buds, and Leaves extreamly fuffer from the Blafts , Faundies , and withtheir bé/s, isa mark that the Treeis infected > at leaft , between the Bark, very many tender Plantations : Next to the utter deftroying them, there is nothing better thento anoint that part which is within their reach, with flercus humanum, tempered with little Water or Orine,and lightly brufhed on; this renewed after every great Rain : But a cleanlier than this, and yet which Conies , and even Cattel moft abhor,is to water,or {prinkle them with Tanners Liquor, viz. That, which they ufe for drefling their hides, 8. fof is to be rubb’d andferap’d off with fome fit inftrument of Wood , which May not excorticate the Tree, or witha piece of Hair-cloth after a fobbing Rain: But the mott infallible Art of E- snufcation is taking awaythe caufé, whichis fa perfluous wo#ffure in clayie and fpewing grounds, 9. Ivy isdeftroy'd by diging up the Roots,and loofning its hold: And yet even Zvyit felt, the deftruction of many fair Trees, if very old, and whereit has long invefted its fupport , if taken off 5 does frequently kill the Tree, by a too fuddain expofure to the un-aecuftom'd cold: Of the Roots of Loy (which with {mall Induftry, miay be made a beautiful Standard) are made curioufly polifh’d and fleck'd cups and boxes, and even Tables of great value. AZiffleto and other Excrefcences to be cut and broken off. But the Fungi (which prognofticate a fault in the Liverand Entrails of Trees as we may callit) is remedied by Abrafion, Frittion,Interlucation and expofure tothe Sux, 10, The hay mingled, Thisis one of the worft of Evils, and to which the Caterpillars, Rooks, &c. 16. Theblafted parts of Trees are to be cut away to the quick; and to preventit, /7oak them in fufpicious weather,by burning moift ftraw with the wind, or rather the dry and. fuperfluous cuttings of Aromatic plants, fuch as Rofemary, Lavender ,Funiper, Bays, &c. Iufe to whip, and chaftife my Cypreffes with a wand , after their Winter burnings till allthe mortified and fcorch'd parts flie off in deft, as long almoft as any will fall, and obferve that they recover and fpring the better. Aéice, Adoles , and Pifmires caule the Jaun~ dies in Trees, known bythe difcolour of the Leaves and Buds. 17, The doles may be taken in Traps,and kill'd , as every WoodT 2 wan an 3, Fern is beft deftroy’d by ftriking off the Tops , as Tarquin did Chap.XXVII. SdCd Chap.XXVII¥ Sieteae A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. dexteroufly feparated from the Mother-reots , and Tran{planted in convenientplaces for propagation, as the Season requires, im |