IX PESTS 185 
certain sorts may be sometimes seen standing leaf- 
less except for just a tuft of the youngest foliage 
at the top. All the other leaves, covered with the 
black spots, have withered and fallen, as if it was 
winter. 
The Victor Verdier race are the most liable to 
suffer in this way, and in fact are generally badly off for 
leaves by the end of August, but a great many other 
H.P.s are often victims, especially the very dark 
ones, and all that are budded on manetti. Teas are 
entirely exempt from it, and it is rare under glass. 
Partly from the fact that the first and principal 
bloom is not affected by it, and that it does not seem 
to do much harm to the next year’s growth, and 
partly because there appears to be no remedy short 
of cutting off the attacked shoots and burning them, 
this pest is very little heeded by nurserymen or even 
by amateurs, and I confess I take no notice of it 
and have never found it to do my summer blooms any 
practical injury. 
It is plain, however, that the loss of the leaves, 
in what is but little past the middle of summer, 
must be a considerable check to the plants, and as 
the growth of the fungus is within the membranes 
of the Rose plant there seems to be actually no 
remedy short of cutting off the orange-spotted leaves 
and shoots in early summer and burning them; but 
I think gentle rubbing with finger and thumb with 
a pinch of sulphur is likely to do good in the early 
stages. 
On light soils, especially those rich in humus or 
vegetable matter, hike an old garden, the attacks 
are less frequent. They are worst in a dry hot 
August on heavy lands which have not had much 
