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ance of long, pointed, pure white, delicately perfumed 

 buds. Mare*chal Niel is an enduring favourite. The 

 most successful growers cut this glorious, fragrant 

 yellow Rose hard back after flowering, and get entirely 

 new canes for the next season's blooming. 



Insects and Diseases. The Rose is often attacked by 

 green-fly. This can be destroyed under glass by fumi- 

 gating the house with a vaporising cone, and outdoors 

 by syringing with water in which soft soap and quassia 

 chips, at the rate of a pound and half a pound re- 

 spectively per gallon, have been boiled. Grubs and 

 small caterpillars may be picked off when seen, and 

 their attack checked by dusting the bushes with flowers 

 of sulphur while moist. Sulphur is also a good remedy 

 for mildew and red rust indeed, the Rose-grower 

 should always keep a supply by him. Probably mildew 

 will prove to be the most dangerous enemy. The 

 shining-leaved Roses of the Wichuraiana class (Dorothy 

 Perkins, &c.), are generally free from this pest, but 

 Crimson Rambler and other beautiful pillar Roses are 

 very subject to it. An attack mars their appearance 

 by coating the leaves with a greyish powder, and im- 

 pairs the flowering. To be thoroughly effectual, the 

 sulphur should be used in a finely powdered state, and 

 dredged on directly the attack begins. For pillar plants 

 it is convenient to have a pair of Malbec bellows, which 

 many seedsmen sell. 



THE ROSE-GROWER'S YEARA SUMMARY. 



January and February. If the garden Roses were not 

 planted in autumn owing to the soil not being ready, 

 they should be kept prostrate with soil heaped over the 

 roots. Take an opportunity of preparing and manuring 



