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the solution half as strong) ; repeat about twice during 

 the spring, and you will have fine roses." 



Quassia for Jtose-bugs, etc. 



" The Illinois Horticultural Society recommend quas- 

 sia as the best medicine for the insects that mutilate 

 rose-bushes and many other garden shrubs. Make a 

 strong tea of quassia- bark it costs ten or twelve cents 

 a pound wholesale and drench the bushes. The little 

 pests will not fancy the taste any better than sick chil- 

 dren do." 



Mose-slug, 



" I have tried many remedies (so called) without ef- 

 fect, but for the last two summers I have kept my roses 

 clear of them by the following wash : Two ounces 

 alum, one ounce hellebore, to one gallon water, applied 

 with a Byringe, once a week, during the season of the 

 slugs, commencing when the leaves begin to appear. 



" MRS. J. C. O." 



" Get white hellebore, one ounce, and dissolve in a 

 pailful of soft, cold water, the colder the better. Take 

 it on a sunny morning after the dew is entirely dried 

 off, put the mixture in a watering-pot, and give the 

 bushes a good showering, throwing it up under the 

 leaves as much as possible, wetting them all over thor- 

 oughly. It will not harm the bushes or roses in the 

 least ; but, I assure you, the worm that gets his share 

 of the dose will eat rose-leaves no more for ever. Please 





