quantity of
water for an hour or two, and serve it with butter and sugar, or milk.
Lemon peel may be added to the pudding, but it is very good without
spice, and may be eaten with butter and salt.

PLANTING. In rendering swampy ground useful, nothing is so well adapted
as planting it with birch or alder, which grows spontaneously on bogs
and swamps, a kind of soil which otherwise would produce nothing but
weeds and rushes. The wood of the alder is particularly useful for all
kinds of machinery, for pipes, drains, and pump trees, as it possesses
the peculiar quality of resisting injury from wet and weather. The bark
is also highly valuable to black dyers, who purchase it at a good price;
and it is much to be lamented that the properties of this useful tree
are not duly appreciated.

PLANTATIONS. Young plantations are liable to great injury, by being
barked in the winter season. To prevent this, take a quantity of grease,
scent it with a little tar, and mix them well together. Brush it round
the stems of young trees, as high at least as hares and rabbits can
reach, and it will effectually prevent their being barked by these
animals. Tar must not be used alone, for when exposed to the sun and
air, it becomes hard and binding, and hinders the growth of the
plantation. Grease will not have this effect, and the scent of the tar
is highly obnoxious to hares and rabbits.

PLASTERS. Common plaster is made of six pints of olive oil, and two
pounds and a half of litharge finely powdered. A smaller quantity may of
course be made of equal proportions. Boil them together over a gentle
fire, in about a gallon of water, and keep the ingredients constantly
stirring. After they have boiled about three hours, a little of the
salve may be taken out, and put into cold water. When of a proper
consistence, the whole may be suffered to cool, and the water pressed
out of it with the hands. This will serve as a basis for other plasters,
and is generally applied in slight wounds and excoriations of the skin.
It keeps the part warm and supple, and defends it from the air, which is
all that is necessary in such cases.--Adhesive plaster, which is
principally used for keeping on other dressings, consists of half a
pound of common plaster, and a quarter of a pound of Burgundy pitch
melted together.--Anodyne plaster is as follows. Melt an ounce of the
adhesive, and when cooling, mix with it a dram of powdered opium, and
the same of camphor, pr