CULTIVATION 



cutting off of this shoot from the root itself is the 

 proper remedy for this enemy to the growth of your 

 plant. 



Rose bugs or beetles are really the worst pests 

 which you have to endure. They are quite large 

 and it is most annoying to find these destructive 

 insects on your beautiful blooms. The best way is 

 to pick them off by hand. This, if done thoroughly 

 when they commence to appear, is really the only 

 sure method of ridding one's rose gardens of these 

 miserable pests. We have tried a number of sprays 

 which have undoubtedly helped to some extent, but 

 it is much more thorough to go around and actually 

 remove and destroy the bugs yourself pick them 

 off, drop them into a can of kerosene and they are 

 gone. 



At the end of this chapter will be found a list of 

 recipes for the diseases of roses. 



So your plants work on through the hotter part 

 of the summer and now towards its close the nights 

 commence to become cooler and the days are still 

 quite warm; the air itself is very moist and humid. 

 This occurs usually in the latter part of August, 

 and this change from eighty degrees or more in the 

 daytime to sixty degrees or less in the night is one 

 which the rose foliage does not like. When there is 

 also great humidity mildew is liable to occur. A 



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