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almost a skeleton, and semi-transparent. He is 

 an ugly little fellow, and cold and clammy like a 

 slug, but he must be sought for diligently, and 

 crushed at once, otherwise your rose garden in a 

 few weeks would become a garden, not of ' dry 

 bones' — but dry leaves, which would flutter in 

 the wind most dismally. 



DISEASES. 



We must commence with the most tiresome, if 

 not the most fatal, of rose maladies — the white 

 mildew, which, alas I our favom'ite autiunnal 

 roses too often show in autumn, is most difficult 

 to arrest ; it does not kill roses, but it destroys 

 the beauty of the leaves and weakens the tree. 

 Flowers of sulphur sprinkled on the leaves and 

 shoots in the evening when they are moist with 

 dew, and washed off with the syringe the following 

 morning about eight o'clock, will arrest it some- 

 times. If the weather be hot and the sulphur be 

 suffered to remain on the leaves all the day 

 following, mischief often occurs and the leaves 

 burn. If the weather be cloudy, it may remain 

 on the leaves for twenty-foiu: hours ; in all cases 

 syringe the leaves and shoots abundantly with 

 pure water to wash it off. 



The Rev. \V. Radclyffe recommends ' 2 oz. of 



