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destroy them. Perhaps a little foot sown on the places,and washed in with the rains, would have a better effect.The hills when rendered mellow by the frosts, may bebroken and dispersed about the land. This method of

with the surface, has one advan-tage ; it leaves thepasture-land even and fit for mowing ;

cutting the hills even

and at the fame time the little eminences being taken away, jthe insects are exposed to the wet, which is disagreeable ;to them.

In wet weather these insects accumulate cavernous!heaps of sandy particles among the grafs, called by thelabourers 'prout-hills ; which quickly take off the edgeof a scythe. These hills, which are very light andcompressible, the above writer assures us from expe-rience, may be readily stamped down, by the feet of thehay-makers, and the insects, together with their eggsand earth, easily pounded to a mortar. This should be re-peated a second, and perhaps a third time, after the iti-nerant foragers have returned from their quest of food,and have begun to raise new structures near the old de-molished habitations.

APHERNOCJSLI, or arkenoujli , a species of pine, orpinaster, growing wild on the Alps, where one wouldthink it impossible that any tree could vegetate and pros-per; and therefore would probably thrive to great ad-vantage on our bleak, barren, rocky, mountainous tractsof land. See Plate I. Fig. 2.

The timber is large, and has many uses, especiallywithin-doors, or under cover. The branches resemblethose of the pitch-trees, commonly called the spruce sir :but the cones are more round in the middle, being of apurplish colour, shaded with black. The bark of thetrunk, or bole of the tree, is not reddish like the bark ofthe pine, but of a whitish cast, like that of the sir. Thehusk, or sort of shell, which incloses the kernels, is easilycracked, and the kernels are covered with a brown skin,which peels off; they are about as large as a commonpea, triangular like buck-wheat, and white and soft as ablanched almond, of an oily agreeable taste, but leavingin the mouth that small degree of asperity, which is pe-culiar to wild fruits, and is not unpleasing. These ker-nels make a part sometimes in a.Swiss desert ; they sup-ply the place of musbroom-buttons in ragouts; and arealso recommended in consumptive cases, on account oftheir balsamic oil.

Wainscoting, flooring, and other joiner’s work, madewith the planks of aphernoufli, are of a finer grain, andmore beautifully variegated than deal, and the smell ofthe wood is more agreeable. From this tree is extracteda white odoriferous resin.

The aphernoufli is ot a healthy, vigorous nature, andwill bear removing when it is young, even in dry warmweather. The wood makes excellent firing in stoves,ovens, and kilns; but is dangerous to be used on thehearth or in grates, being apt to splinter and fly to a con-siderable distance.

This tree is the pimts ccmbra of Matthioli and Linnæus,the pinus solus quints in Haller, the larixsemper-virens inthe German Ephemeris, the libanus carpathius of somewriters, and th epina cinque feiteilles, N® 20 . in Du Ham el.It grows in great abundance on the most mountainousand coldest parts of the Biianponnois, where it is called bythe natives alviez, It bears some resemblance to the whiteCanada pine, which is better known in England by thename.of Weymouth-pine. EJfays on Husbandry,

APIARY, a bee garden, or place where bees are kept.See the article Bees.

APOPLEXY, or, as the farriers generallycall it, thestaggers, a disease to which the horse is subject, and bywhich the creature drops down suddenly without sense ormotion, except a working of his flanks, proceeding fromthe motion of the heart and lungs, which never ceaseswhile any spark of life remains.

The previous symptoms are drowsiness, watry moisteyes, somewhat full and inflamed, a disposition to reel,feebleness, a bad appetite, and almost continual hangingof the head, or resting it in his manger, sometimes withlittle or no fever, and scarce any alteration in the dung orurine. When the apoplexy proceeds from water collect-ed in the sinuses and ventricles of the brain, the horse hasgenerally, besides all the foregoing symptoms, a disposi-tion to rear up, and is apt to fall back, when any one goesto handle him about his head. The reason of his fallingbackwards seems to be obvious, because when the head israised with his mouth upwards, the water in the ventriclescauses a weight upon the cerebellum, or part lying underthe brain, and origin of the nerves, so as to deprive thecreature of fense and motion at once : this does not, how-ever, prove suddenly mortal. Young horses are most sub-ject to it, and, with proper helps, and good usage, some-times get over it: but when the apoplexy proceeds fromwounds' or blows on the head, or from any other causeproducing ruptures in the blood-vessels, or from mattercollected in the brain, or its membranes; or if any partof the brain or its membranes be indurated, or growncallous, by long continuance, the horse will not only have,most of the symptoms already described, but will be fran-tic by fits, especially after his feeds, so as to start andfly into motion at every thing that comes near him.These cafes are extremely dangerous, and seldom admitof a perfect recovery. But when horses fall down sud-denly and work violently at their flanks, without any abi-lity to rise, even after plentiful bleeding, such horses sel-dom recover.

All that can be done in such cases is to strike the veinsin several parts at once, to raise up the horse’s head andI shoulders, propping them with plenty of straw; and if he! survive the fit, to cut several rowels; though in cafe ofj ruptured vessels, or if any kind of extraneous matter be) lodged on the brain, or its membranes, all these helps1 will be of little service.

But if the apoplectic fits happens to be only the effect ofa plethora, or fulness of blood, from high feeding, andwant of sufficient exercise ; or if it be the effect of a sizyblood, which is often the cafe of many young horses, thathave been fed for sale, or from catching cold while theblood is in this state, the cure will not be attended withany great difficulty, notwithstanding a horse, in these cir-cumstances, may reel and stagger, and sometimes falldown suddenly.

First of all bleed plentifully, and keep the horse forsome time to an opening diet of scalded bran, and some-times scalded barley, lessening the quantity of his hay.After two days repeat the bleeding, but in a smaller de-gree. If the horse has a cold, it will be proper to givehim pectoral drinks, proper for that disorder. See Cold.

But if no symptom of a cold appear it will be neces-sary, after bleeding and a spare diet, to give him two orthree purges, not only to remove the plethora or fulness,but attenuate and thin his blood, for which the following1 is recommended, " Take