The modern family receipt book. Containing a great variety of valuable receipts arranged under their respective heads, connected with the art of social and domestic life, including many valuable original communications the result of long experience / by Mrs. Mary Holland.

  • Holland, Mary.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The modern family receipt book. Containing a great variety of valuable receipts arranged under their respective heads, connected with the art of social and domestic life, including many valuable original communications the result of long experience / by Mrs. Mary Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    large quantities of gum at the bud, and about a foot above it, and also in some of the largest branches; it appeared altogether in a very sickly state. I had recourse to a painter’s brush, and a little white paint, and covered all the places infected with gum, and in the large branches I cut out all the infected wood, and gave the wounds two coats of white paint. This season it is appearing as healthy as any of the other trees, and promising to have a good crop ; and there is no appearance of gum breaking through the plant. [ find that the tender kind of fruit-trees are most sub- ject to canker. I have observed a standard tree that was full of canker to be cured by removing it to a south wall. I have found that a cold wet season, or a heavy load of fruit, will bring on canker, The hardy kinds are always free from canker, while tender kinds, in the same soil, are full of it; therefore, in plauting fruit-trees, care should be taken to plant the hardy sort in the most exposed situa- tions, and the tender ones in the most sheliered. I have had peach trees upon open walls full of canker; have put a glass-case over them, and have found, when the wood was well ripened, the trees free of it. I have grafted hardy kinds on trees that were almost useless with the canker, and have thereby obtained healthy trees, and great crops of fruit. ‘There are some fine trees that have been treated in this manner at Craiglochart, near Edin- burgh, of my grafting. Standard trees are very often lost for want of pruning ; and I think that in general those that are pruned in the common way, are worse instead of better for it. The com- mou way is to get into the middle of the tree, and to cut all the branches from that place, leaving the top full and crowded. Now I think that the pruning should be confined to the fruit bearing branches of the extremities ; thinning these out regularly, that the remainder may find a free passage through them; by which means the wood will open bet- ter, and the tree will keep the thes from canker, D