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Show A Difcourfe of Foreft-Trees. Chap, XXVII, knows: It is certain that they are driven from their haunts Chap. XXVIII, byGarlick for a time, and other heady {mels buried in their aflages. ; . 18 Aice with Traps, or by finking fome Ve/elalmoft level with trees, and feveral others, ase affirms 34.16, ¢.31. Thefe (amongft the furface of the ground, the Vefel half full of Water, upon whichlet there be f{trew'd fome hulls or chaff of Oates; alfo with Bane. many others) are the Infirmities to which Foreft-Trees are fubje& whilft they are ftanding 5 and when they are fell , tothe Worm; efpecially if cut before the Sap be perfectly atreft: But to prevent 19. Deftroy Pifmires with {calding water , and difturbing their | bills, or rubbing the ffem with Cow- dung > oF adeco¢tion of Tithymale, wafhing the infefted parts 3 and this will infinuate a and chafe orcure it inthe Tiber, I recommend this Secret as the moft ap- rovd, upon which pour fo much of the ftrongeft Aquafortis as may co- ver it three fingersdeep > Di/til this to drynels, whichis done by 20. Caterpillars, by cutting off their webs from the twigs be- one Treeneer Bononiain Italy, An. 1657. when of Jate a turbulent Gut had almoft large Trad of huge Poplars , belonging quite irradicated a very to the Afarc hionefs Elephantucca Spada, that univerfally crected themfelves again after they were beheaded as they lay even proftrate ; What fays the Naturalift? Proftratas reftitwi plerunque , & quadamterré cicatricé ree vivifcere wuleare eff: *Tis familiar (fays Pinie) in the Platanus, which p . 23, Let common yellow Sulphur be putinto a cucurbit- glaffe, them quite out of the chinks and crevices, without prejudice to the Zree, and is a good prevention of other Infirmities. 3 fore the end of February,and burning them ; the fooner the better ifthey be already hatched wath them off with ivater,in which fome of the Caterpillars themfelves, and Garlick have been bruifed 5 OF the juyce of Rue, or choak and dry them with Jnoakof Galbanura, Shooe-foles, Hair, and fome 2ffirm that planting the Piowie neer thems a certain remedy; but there is no remedy {ofacile as the burning them off with {mall wifps of dryfiraw , which in amoment rids you, 21. Kooks do intime , by pinching off the buds and tops. of Trees: for their Nes, caufe many Treesand Groves to decay : Butif Cat= tel break in before the time, conclamatum eft,efpecially Goats, whofe mouthsand breath is poyfon to Trees 5 they never ter, and Varroaffirms, if they but lick the five thrive well af tree, they become immediately barren. 22. Another touch at the Winds; For though theycannotproperlybe faid to be: Infirmities of Trees 3 yet they are amongft the principal cafes that render Trees infirme, | know no furerprotection againft them, than (as we faid) toflelter and fiake them whilft theyare young , ‘till they have well eftabli fh’d Koots 5 And with thiscawtion , that in cafe any goodly Trees (which you would defire efpeciallyto preferve and redrefs) chance to be proftrated by fome impetuous and extraordinary florme ; you be not over hafty to cairy himaway, or defpair of him; but firft let me perfwade you to poll him clofe , and fo let him lye fome times for by this means manyvatt Trees have raisd themfelves by of the remaining Roots,without any otheraflifta the vigour onely nce 5: fo as people have pronoune’d it Adiraculons » as I could ftances 5 befides what Theophrafius relate tell you by feveral Ins c, tanus , which rife in one Night in his obfer 19. of that huge Plas vation and the likel find hapn’d in more than A Difcourfé of Foreft= Trees, which are very obnoxious to the Winds , by reafon of the thick neffe of their branches , which being cutoff, and difcharged, reftore themfelves. This alfo frequently happens in Wall-nuts Olive two or three Reifications : Let the Sulphur remaining in the bot- tom (being ofa blackifh or fad red colour) be laid ona Marble, or put into a G/afs, whereit will eafily diflolve into Oi]: With this anoint what is either infected or to be preferved of Timber, Iisa great and excellent 4rcanumfor tinging theWood with no unpleafant colour, by no Art to be wafhed out; and fuch a prefervative ofall manner of Woods y nay , of many other things 5 as Ropes, Ca bles, Fifhing-Nets ) Majts ofShips, Gc, that it defends them frompy. trefaction, ether in Waters, under, or above the earth, inthe Snow, Ice, dir, Winter or Summer ,&c. It were faperfluous to defcribe the procefs of the Aqua-fortis; It fhall be fufficient to let you know, That our common Coperas makes this Aqua-fortis well enoughfor our purpofe , being drawn over by a Retort : And for Sulphur the land ofSaint Chriffophers yields enough,(¢ which hard- ly needs any Refizing) to furnifh the whole world. This Secret ( for the Curioks ) I thoughtfit not to omit ; though a more compendious , three or four anointings with Linfeed Oil, has prov'd. very effeQual: It was experimented ina Wall-nut Table, where ic deftroy'd millions of Worms immediately, and is to be practis’d for Tables, Tubes , Adathematical Inftruments, Boxes, Bed fleads, Chairs, Rarities,&c, Oyl of Wall-nuts will doubrlefi do the fame,is fweeter, and a better Vernifh ; but above allis commended Oy!of cedar,or uniper, Cee Ihave fpoken ofTrees, their Kinds , and propagation in particular: Nowa word or two concerning their ordering in gene- ral,asit relates to Copfes, Lopping,Felling,&c. Then] thal add fomething more concerningtheir Ufes, asto Fewel,&c. and caft fuch ac- cidental Lefons into a few Aphorifms,as could not well be more re- gularly inferted. i 1 ‘ ie Laftly , Ifhall conclude with fome more ferious Obfervations in reference to the main Defiga and project of this Difcourfe, as it conceyns the Improvement ofhis Mdajeflies Foreffs , for the honour and fecurity of the whole Kingdom, 137 |