CLIMBING ROSES AS VINES 261 
select a dry, airy, sunny location, properly enrich 
the soil before planting, plant with care, water 
during very dry weather, protect the first 
winter or two, and keep a sharp lookout for 
bugs. 
Roses, generally speaking, are not any more 
subject to insect attacks than are any other 
flowering shrubs. The worst pest is the rose 
beetle, which, however, attacks other shrubs 
that flower about the same time. Fortunately, 
its destructive season is short, and as most of 
the climbing roses flower later than the ordinary 
garden kinds, they escape untouched. As a 
preventive on the earlier flowering kinds, I have 
tried everything I ever heard of as being good — 
arsenate of lead, Paris green, kerosene, and 
tobacco preparations — all with practically no 
success. Hand picking is the most effectual means 
of combat. It is not such an awful task as one 
may imagine, and one can usually get some of 
the small boys of the neighbourhood to do the 
work at a small cost. Let each worker have a 
bucket with a little kerosene in the bottom. 
The advantage of this is that the females are 
destroyed and the intensity of next year’s attack 
lessened. These insects do not chew on the 
surface, like most other large insects, but bore 
