वृक्षायुर्वेद (सुरपाल - प्राचीन भारतीय पादप-विज्ञान, कृषि एवं वृक्ष-चिकित्सा सटीक)

153. Mallikā) produces abundant flowers when slightly
     fomented with the shaking flames of hay-fire, and patala
     (blossoms so richly that it) becomes the sole resort of
     the bees when profusely fed with water mixed with
     milk.
154. The cotton plant when sprinkled with water mixed
     with fish flesh, yuthi when fed well with the water mixed
     with milk, sesame, and dry cow dung, and the
     saptachhada as also the sephalika when fed well with water
     mixed with flesh and enriched with fish flesh yield better
     blossoms.
155. The vegetables of the type of birbhati, alambu
     (pumpkin), karkaru, trapusa, etc. produce rich yields
     when smoked in summer with the bones of hog.
156. The alambuka bears many fruits in a short period if
     watered with stale rice-water (starch).
157. Patola (pointed gourd) plants when stressed in the
     month of Phalguna (spring, usually February / March)
     with the flames of hay-fire and profusely sprinkled with
     water mixed with oil cake in Caitra (after Phalguna) yield
     gourds.
158. Trees should be provided with the warmth by
     dusting fire-ashes tied in a piece of cloth to eliminate
     the ill-effects of frost.
159. If cooked rice mixed with curd is sprinkled all over
     in the farms the hail shower can be immediately warded
     off.
160. If the farm is infested with rats, etc. the following
     mantra written on the plantain leaf with lac dye should
     be kept at the center of the field in a triangle.
     161–162. Om Swasti! (Let peace prevail!) The Lord
     Hanuman from Kiskindha, whose feet are ever
     victorious, who has displayed his valor in great
     disasters and by capturing the Sun, who is the Lord
     of lords, commands the rats, the shrews, grasshoppers,
     etc. in this particular land, "Leave this land and go
     elsewhere immediately on seeing this order of the king,
     otherwise the king will use his tail, powerful like the
     thunderbolt, to kill, burn, and destroy all of you. Hum!
     Phat! Swaha!"
161. After writing this mantra on a leaf and having
     recited it, the leaf should be buried in the ground. This
     will destroy all sparrows, insects, kites, rats, ants, etc.
162. Thus when these various well-proven rituals are
     practiced on all the superior, medium, and the inferior
     trees, including saplings, plants, or fully grown trees,
     they systematically and completely destroy (the above
     stated nuisances).

Ailments

165. The disease of all types of trees is stated to be of
     two varieties: internal and external.
166. The internal ones are those which are caused by
     vata, pitta, and kafa (humors); and external ones are those
     which are caused by insects, cold weather, etc.
167. Among these, the diseases caused by vata are due
     to the land that becomes arid on account of excessive
     supply of dry and pungent matters.
168. These diseases are: thinness and crookedness of
     trunk, appearance of knots on the trunk or leaves, and
     the fruits being hard, with less juice and less sweetness.
169. The diseases of the kafa type occur in winter and
     in spring if the trees are excessively watered with
     materials which are sweet, oily, sour, or cold.
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