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sene are recommended: spraying with arsenate of lead five 

 pounds to fifty gallons of water; or Paris green at the rate of 

 one pound to two hundred gallons of water. The latter solu- 

 tion injures the foliage. Since Paris green is a remedy, I do 

 not see why one cannot use it as we do for the potato-bug, 

 which is half a teaspoonful of it sifted in a quart of flour and 

 dusted over plants when they are wet. This proportion is not 

 injurious to foliage. The rose-bug is a gentle creature, and 

 clings to a leaf until you get a fair hold on it, which makes 

 capture an easy thing. 



Another rose pest is a small green worm that works on the 

 under side of the leaf and leaves behind a brown skeleton fiber. 

 Spraying helps a little, but it is better to stir into the ground 

 a little air-slaked lime in early spring. One half of a rose bed 

 where this was tried was quite free from the pest; the other 

 half where no lime was used was eaten almost bare. Sprink- 

 ling the under side of leaves with one tablespoonful of white 

 hellebore to a pailful of boiling water is recommended. 



I was quite worn out by the time they departed, for their 

 season was unusually long that first year of discovery, when 

 to my distress I found the wild clematis vines almost denuded 

 of leaves, also the Anemone Pennsylvania was in tatters, and 

 the new invader was a dark lead-colored bug almost an inch 

 long, resembling a lightning-bug on the back, but with a huge 

 gray abdominal expanse. It has a very small pin head which 

 it carries in a spirited, cocky fashion, and drops at a touch. 

 Later it infested the Japanese clematis, and proved a vora- 

 cious devastator. I couldn't hand pick this loathsome insect, 

 but scraped it off into my kerosene box. 



Before this pest disappeared I found another and larger 

 creature at work my trials that particular summer grew like 

 an inverted triangle, and if winter had not come to my relief, 

 our garden pests would have increased to the size of a cat. 



