ke and
lay there-vpon swines dunge, sage, and lime beaten together, and bound
with a cloath fast to the tree, and it will cure it: or wash the tree
with cowes-pisse and vinegar and it will helpe it.

{SN: Of Pismiers and Snailes.}
If your young trees be troubled with Pismiers, or Snailes, which are
very noysome vnto them, you shall take vnsleckt lime and sope-ashes and
mingling them with wine-lees, spread it all about the roote of the trees
so infected, and annoint the body of the tree likewise therewith, and it
will not onely destroy them but giue comfort to the tree: the soote of a
chimney or Oake sawe-dust spread about the roote will doe the same.

{SN: Of Caterpillers, and Earewigges.}
If Caterpillers doe annoy your young trees, who are great deuourers of
the leaues and young buddes, and spoylers of the barke, you shall, if it
be in the summer time, make a very strong brine of water and salt, and
either with a garden pumpe, placed in a tubbe, or with squirts which
haue many hoales you shall euery second day water and wash your trees,
and it will destroy them, because the Caterpiller naturally cannot
indure moisture, but if neuerthelesse you see they doe continue still
vpon your trees in Winter, then you shall when the leaues are falne away
take dankish straw and setting it on fire smeare and burne them from the
tree, and you shall hardly euer be troubled with them againe vpon the
same trees: roules of hay layd on the trees will gather vp Earewigges
and kill them.

{SN: Of the barrainenesse of Trees.}
If your trees be barraine, and albeit they flourish and spread there
leaues brauely, yet bring forth no fruit at all, it is a great
sicknesse, and the worst of all other: therefore you shall vnderstand it
proceedeth of two causes: first, of two much fertillitie, and fatnesse
of the ground, which causeth the leafe to put forth and flourish in such
vnnaturall abundance, that all such sappe and nutriment as should knit
and bring forth fruit, turnes onely vnto leafe, cyons, and vnprofitable
branches, which you shall perceiue both by the abundance of the leaues
and by the colour also, which will be of a more blacker and deeper
greene, and of much larger proportion then those which haue but their
naturall and proper rights: and the cure thereof is to take away the
earth from the roote of such trees and fill vp the place againe with
other earth, which is of a much leaner substance: but if your tree haue
no such infirmitie