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 5th. Take three ounces of wormwood, one ounce of assa fœtida, steep and break them, and boil with four pails of water in the air, because they are stinking smells, and when boiled, strain out the ingredients through a linen cloth, and use it when cold at pleasure, before the bud be opened, and they will do no harm to the tree; you may also add other ingredients, as tobacco stalks, wild vines, colloquintida, or the like, and expect very good issue.

To kill green bugs in gardens, sprinkle the places where they fix with strong vinegar, mixed with the juice of henbane; or some water the plants haunted by them with the cold decoction of mustard and laurel seed in water; some quash them with their fingers, which is a good way; or fleabane boiled in water and sprinkled, kills them.

Stick a rod half a foot high in the ground, with mugs or cups turned over the top of it, and you will find that they will creep under there for shelter, so you may easily kill them.

Democritus says, put eight or nine crabs in an earthen pot with water, and let them stand eight days in the open air, then take of this water, and water your plants in their infancy; repeat the same once in eight days, and you will find it effectual against all sorts of vermin.

Take a sheep, ox, or goat's gaul, and bruise it by the water side, and the frogs will gather to it.