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to be restored to vigour. Foremost among its 

 enemies is the Eose Aphis (Aphis Eosse), which 

 seems to multiply itself almost magically. Some 

 fine evening in June you may be enjoying the 

 vigorous healthy shoots of your rose trees ap- 

 parently clean and fresh and free from all blight. 

 The next morning by 10 A.M. nearly every shoot 

 may be found coated with its living world of 

 insect life ; some green, some brown, or brownish, 

 but all absorbed in one pursuit — sucking the life- 

 juice from every shoot and leaf; no enemy to the 

 rose is sopersevering or so injurious, for in twenty- 

 four hours those fine luxuriant shoots crowned 

 with their buds of promise will, if left uncared 

 for, be withered and unsightly. It is a source of 

 real pleasure to be able to give a simple and most 

 efficient remedy for this pest. The first intima- 

 tion of it, if I mistake not, appeared in the 

 ' Gardener's Chronicle : ' it is now one of those 

 valuable compounds that will endure as long as 

 gardens are cared for, for it is death to every 

 description of aphis. 



Take four ounces of quassia chips, and boil 

 them ten minutes in a gallon of soft water ; strain 

 off the chips, and add four ounces of soft soap, 

 which should be dissolved in it as it cools, stirring 

 it before using. 



If roses on walls are infested, the syringe may 

 be employed, but for standard roses and rose- 

 bushes it may be applied after the following 



