all sorts of Plumbe-trees, Cherry-trees, Nut-trees, and such like, then
you shall in the winter, bare the rootes of those trees, and cut off
those cyons close by the roote: but if your trees be broused or eaten by
tame-Deare, Goates, Sheepe, Kine, Oxen, or such like, then there is no
help for such a misfortune but onely to cut off the whole head and graft
the stocke anew.

{SN: Of Barke-bound.}
Next to the proyning of trees, is the preseruing, phisicking, and curing
of the diseases of trees: to which they are subiect as well as our
naturall bodyes: and first of all, there is a disease called
Barke-bound, which is when the barke, through a mislike and leperous
drynesse, bindeth in the tree with such straitnesse that the sappe being
denied passage the body growes into a consumption: it is in nature like
vnto that disease which in beasts is called hide-bound, and the cure is
thus: at the beginning of March take a sharpe knife, and from the toppe
of the body of the tree, to the very roote, draw downe certaine slits,
or incissions, cleane through the barke, vnto the very sappe of the
tree, round about the tree, & then with the backe of your knife open
those slits and annoint them all through with Tarre, and in short space
it will giue libertie vnto the tree to encrease & grow: this disease
commeth by the rubbing of cattell against the tree, especially Swine,
who are very poyson vnto all plants.

{SN: Of the Gall.}
There is another disease in fruit-trees, called the Gall, and it eateth
and consumeth the barke quit away, and so in time kills the tree: the
cure is to cut and open the barke which you see infected, and with a
chissell to take away all that is foule and putrefied, and then to
clappe Oxe dunge vpon the place, and it will helpe it, and this must be
done euer in winter.

{SN: Of the Canker.}
The Canker in fruit trees is the consumption both of the barke and the
body, & it commeth either by the dropping of trees one vpon another, or
else when some hollow places of the tree retaineth raine water in them,
which fretting through the barke, poysoneth the tree: the cure is to cut
away all such boughes as by dropping breede the euill, and if the hollow
places cannot be smooth and made euen, then to stoppe them with clay,
waxe, and sope-ashes mixt together.

{SN: Of worme-eaten barkes.}
If the barkes of your trees be eaten with wormes, which you shall
perceiue by the swelling of the barke, you shall then open the bar