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GARDENING. 



July 



Miscellaneous. 



A Rose Leaf Eating Insect— Mcdi- 

 cus, New York, sends us a rose leaf with 

 incisions cut in it b\' some unknown pest. 

 Immediately on receiving it we went out 

 into the Dosoris rose beds and found a 

 good deal of the same kind of work. On 

 examination we concluded that it was the 

 work of a "worm" or caterpillar, and 

 done at night. On searching in theground 

 about the roots of the roses we found the 

 marauder, and brought him homeandfcd 

 him; he eats two square inches of rose 

 leaves a night. Atllp.m.th samenight 

 we took a lantern and searched through 

 our rose beds, and found another species 

 of caterpillar eating away for dear life; 

 we brought it home also and fed it, and 

 find that it eats a little over an inch of 

 surface in a night So now we have sub- 

 mitted both species to Dr. J. A. Lintner, 

 our state entomologist, for his opinion. 

 These "worms" are not numerous. As a 

 remedy we would suggest hand picking 

 only. Of course we could poison their 

 food with hell. bore or arsenic, but this is 

 an extreme measure, and unless the pest 

 be very numerous and destructive, we dis- 

 advise it. 



The Golden Oak Scale is the great- 

 est enemy, so far as we know, that this 

 very distinct oak has got, and most of 

 these oaks seem to be invested with it. A 

 ladv who was here the other day told us 

 that her trees were full of this pest but 

 she had it scraped off of them clean in 

 winter, getting rid of it entirely. As this 

 oak comes true — at least many of the 

 seedlings are golden-leaved — from seed we 

 would suggest that a young stock be 

 raised in this way and kept removed from 

 older specimens. 



A WORD ABOUT Gardenlng: a friend 

 living in Chicago gave me the subscrip- 

 tion for a Christmas gift. She said 

 "there is not a magazine of the kind to 

 compare with it." I quite agree with 

 her. No sooner do I finish reading one 

 number than I wish we could skip the 

 next two weeks so that the next one 

 would come. G. C. G. 



Brooklyn, N. Y., June 17, 1S95. 



Xo OTHER PAPER of the many that 

 come tome receive the careful and prompt 

 attention that Gardening do s. It is a 

 fine, up-to-date publication, and unlike 

 some others of a floral nature, while filled 

 with the best, it does not soar beyond the 

 comprehension of the amateur, and is 

 verv practical. Thank you for it. 



Mclntire, Iowa, June 13, '95. V. \V. 



The Rainmaker Nozzle and the 

 Michigan Weeder — T. C. \V., Cam- 

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Get the nozzle from M. M. Jones, 6122 

 Oglesby avenue, Chicago, and the weeder 

 from the Michigan Wire Shovel Co., Niles, 

 Mich. 



"Akebia QfiNATA is the boss vine for 

 this part of the country" writes W.C. H.. 

 of Chicago. "The severe winter did not 

 injure it in the least. Some new wood 

 hanging loose in the air was hurt but not 

 the main vine." 



When you write an 

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wnat SlmniGrs Says. 



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NOW LISTEN. 



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lat the editor of GARDENING 

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aio-Maker" Nozzle is something that 

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 have we tried ihem but our young men never do 

 any hosing now without using them. They are 

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