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CANKER

Volume 2 · 66 words · 1771 Edition

disease incident to trees, proceeding chiefly from the nature of the soil. It makes the bark rot and fall. If the canker be in a bough, cut it off; in a large bough, at some distance from the tree; and in a small one, close to it: But for over-hot strong ground, the mold is to be cooled about the roots with pond mud, and cow-dung.