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and mixed with burnt earth, say one-fourth, giving 

 from half a peck to a peck to eacli tree in Novem- 

 ber or December, are a most powerful stimulant. 

 Night-soil, mixed with burnt earth in the same 

 proportions, is an excellent surface-dressing. In 

 spring the soil should be stirred to the depth 

 of one or two inches round each tree. For a 

 summer surface-dressing, guano and wood-ashes 

 answer well in the proportions of half a peck of 

 guano to a bushel of ashes, giving a quarter of a 

 peck of the mixture to each tree in a circle three 

 feet in diameter round the stem, and letting it 

 remain undisturbed on the surface; with this 

 dressing abundant watering in dry weather is 

 quite necessary. 



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The rose in all its stages is, if possible, more 

 liable to the attacks of insects and various diseases 

 than any other hardy shrub. There are many 

 very ornamental trees and shrubs which grow from 

 year to year without any apparent disease, and 

 inci:ease in beauty annually as they increase in 

 size. How different is it with the rose — unless it 

 be some hardy climbing sort — for a choice kind 

 of rose left unpruned and uncared for only one 

 season, often dies or becomes so weakly as scarce 



