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of one or two inches round each tree. For a 

 summer surface-dressing, guano and wood-ashes 

 answer well in the proportions of half a peck of 

 guano to a bushel of ashes, giving a quarter of a 

 peck of the mixture to each tree in a circle three 

 feet in diameter round the stem, and letting it 

 remain undisturbed on the surface; with this 

 dressing abundant watering in dry weather is 

 quite necessary. 



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THE rose in all its stages is, if possible, more 

 liable to the attacks of insects and various diseases 

 than any other hardy shrub. There are many 

 very ornamental trees and shrubs which grow from 

 year to year without any apparant disease, and 

 increase in beauty annually as they increase in 

 size. How different is it with the rose unless 

 it be some hardy climbing sort for a choice kind 

 of rose left unpruned and uncared-for for only 

 one season, often dies or becomes so weakly as 

 scarce to be restored to vigour. Foremost among 

 its enemies is the Eose Aphis (Aphis Eosae) which 

 seems to multiply itself almost magically. Some 

 fine evening in June you may be enjoying the 

 vigorous healthy shoots of your rose trees ap- 

 parently clean and fresh and free from all blight. 

 The next morning by 10A.M. nearly every shoot 

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