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Set a lanthorn and candle upon the side of the water or river that waters your garden, it is done. Toads will not come near sage if rue is planted about it.

1st. Wormwood planted in divers places, they will not come near it.

2d. Smoke the places with hartshorn, or lily roots, burning in a fire pan, and they will fly from the place.

3d. The roots of centaury laid about your ground, will make them depart; or lay deer suet about the place, and they will be gone.

Take the juice of ash tree leaves squeezed into good white wine or beer, and drink it, and wash with it, then cover the place stung with ash tree leaves, and it cures you, says Agrippa.

In April or May, lay fresh dung in places where they come, and they will resort to it. In July or August turn up the dunghill, and you will both find their eggs and many of them, which destroy: do this two or three times in a summer.

In gardens are July-flowers, which are subject to harm, both by rain and the sun, and much watering, and from earwigs and pismires. The rain spots them; the sun withers them by drying the ground too much: strong water spoils them, especially at the last of their blowing; pismires gnaw the flowers, and make holes in