180 ON DESTROYING MILLEPEDES (WOODLICE). 



ARTICLE IV. 



ON FORMING A HEDGE OF ROSES. 



BY W. X. Y. 



Abou r four years since, having broken up some new ground, I pared 

 the sods off six inches deep, and made a bank about three feet high> 

 and two feet broad at top, intending it for a screen. Having been 

 ridding up an old garden, there Mere several hundreds of roses that I 

 had no use for, such as Provence, Rosa mundi, China, Tuscany, &c. 

 I planted a row of them mixed down, the middle of the bank, not 

 expecting they would do much good ; however, they bloomed well 

 that season. The year after they bloomed better, and were admired 

 by all who saw them. The year after they were pegged down close 

 to the bank, and layered, so that they spread the whole breadth, and 

 bloomed quite dwarf, but were left unpruned, so that this season they 

 are three feet high from the bank. The Tuscany have thrown out 

 suckers at the side of the bank, so that the roses come down to the 

 ground. The dryness of the bank seems to cause them to bloom 

 more freely than they do even on the beds. They now form, with the 

 growth of four years, a hedge six feet high and four feet through, and 

 form a complete heap of roses from the top to the ground. 



W. X. Y. 

 [Some of the beautiful profuse-flowering trailing kinds, planted to 

 hang down the sides, and bloom from May to November, would give 

 additional interest to so pretty an object.— Conductor.] 



ARTICLE V. 



ON DESTROYING MILLEPEDES (WOODLICE). 



BY A NORTH BIUTON. 



I observe one of your correspondents, J. S., inquires about a method 

 of destroying woodlice : the best way of eradicating these insects is 

 to decoy them to assemble in such a situation in his frames as that 

 they can be readily destroyed. The means made use of are numerous ; 

 a few of them may suffice. 



Poisoning them. — Mix a small portion of arsenic, lump sugar, and 

 flour together, and lay them in a common feeder, which place in a 

 suitable situation, and cover it over lightly with a little dry moss ; 

 examine the feeder occasionally, and remove the dead insects. 



