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obnoxious. Picking into a fruit jar with a little kerosene 

 in the bottom is the only way to kill them. In one 

 day last season Evan came to my rescue and filled a 

 quart jar in two hours; they are so fat and spunky 

 they may be considered as the big game among garden 

 bugs, and their catching, if not carried to an extreme, 

 in the light of sport. 



July. See that all dead flowers are cut off and no pet- 

 als allowed to mould on the ground. Mulch with short 

 grass during hot, dry weather, and use liquid manure 

 upon hybrid teas and teas every two weeks, imme- 

 diately after watering or a rain. Never, at any season, 

 allow a rose to wither on the bush ! 



August. The same, keeping on the watch for all 

 previous insects but the rose beetle; this will have left. 

 Mulch hybrid perpetuals if a dry season, and give 

 liquid manure for the second blooming. 



September. Stir the ground after heavy rains, and 

 watch for tendencies of mould. 



October. The same. 



November. Begin to draw the soil about roots soon 

 after black frost, and bank up before the ground 

 freezes, but do not add straw, litter, or manure in the 

 trenches until the ground is actually frozen, which will 

 be from December first onward, except in the case 



