The Portland daily press., 1866-02-19
A Royal 10000 Recipe.

King George LII of England (our last king,)
mons, awarded $4,000, a sum equal to $4,000
federal currency, for the following recipe in
vented by his Kensington gardener, WILLIAM
Forsyth, for curing the diseases, defects and
injuries in all kinds of fruit and forest trees
Forsyth had been in the employ of his Majes-
ty as the manager OF his great gardens at Ken
sington, for many years, in the course ofwhich,
by careful study, observation and experiment.
he had succeeded in restoring almost any dis
eased, rotten or broken tree to state of perfect
soundness and health. Some which had become
so old and decayed, that but little of the heart
wood and a mere strip of the living bark were
left, were, in a few seasons, made good as new,
the inner wood being entirely restored, and
the bark fully enclosing and surrounding it,
This was specially true of fruit and ornament
al trees.
The restoration and productiveness of such
trees in his Majesty's gardens, excited the at
tention and admiration of fruit growers
throughout the kingdom, till finally Parlia-
ment appointed commissioners to make an at
tentiye and minute examination into Mr.. For
syth's process and mode of cure. as well as the
effects which his remedy had produced on var
ious kinds and ages of trees in the royal gar
dens. The result was the clearest convection
of the great public utility which would result
from a general application Of the remedy; and
the commissioners made representation of it
t tho lorje f tho Traa o,,ru nv, dor xvboco Sane
ton it was submitted to the consideration of
the House of Commons, an address presented
by that body to the Grown, and $4,000 ordered
by his Majesty to be given to Mr.. Forsyth for
making known to the public the materials OF
his composition, with the method of preparing
it, as well as the mode of its application.
Below, the readers of the Press will have
the recipe without cost:
"Take one b0shel of fresh cow-dung, half a
bushcl of lime rubbish of old buildings (that
from the ceilings of rooms is prelerable,) half a
| bushel of wood-ashes, and sixteenth part oil
bushel of pit or river sand the three last ar
ticles are to be sifted fine before they are mix
| ed; then work them well together with a spade
and afterwards with wooden beater until the
stuff is very smooth, like fine plaster used fo
the ceiling ofroOms. ..
The composition being thus made, care mus
be taken to prepare the tree properly for it:
| application, by cutting away all the dead, de
cayed and injured parts, till you come to tn
fresh sound wood, leaving the surface of tn
wood very smooth, and-rounding off the edge
ofthe bark with draw-kniie, or other instru
ment, perfectA smooth, which must be parti'
ularly attended to; then lay on the p'as.e'
about one-eighth of an inch thick, all over 'he
part where the wood or the bark mas oeeh -
cut away, finishing off the edges a
thin as possible; then take quantity Of DIR!
nowder of wood ashes mixed with sixth par
of the same quantity of the ashes of burn
homes. put it into tin box with holes on til
top, and shake the powder on the surface {
the plaster, till the whole is covered over witt
it, letting it remain for half an hour to absor
the moisture; then apply more powder, rub
bing it on gently with the hand, and repeatin
the application of the powder till the whol
i plaster becomes dry smooth surface.
i All trees cut down near the ground, (fc