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Decemfc er. 



Planting goes on well this- month, if the weather be dry and open; 

 but if wet, and the ground does not work well, it is better deferred ; 

 for if platting is done when the soil will not crumble well, and go 

 between the roots, they cannot succeed. Look well to last month's 

 directions, and attend to them in all respects, if not done before. 

 Seed berries, designed for sowing next spring, may be preserved 

 by putting a tile at the bottom of a flow~er pot, into which may be 

 put those hips that are perfectly ripe, covering them three or four 

 inches with sarid, and let them remain until wanted ; or lay them on 

 a shelf to dry out the moisture. See, also, that the stocks, which have 

 been budded, are secured to stakes against the effects of the wind. 

 Protect the smooth-wooded kinds, budded on the stocks in pots, from 

 the frost, and look well to the litter on those in beds. 



At the North, those roses, taken up and potted last month, should 

 now be headed in, cutting away all small shoots to one good eye. 

 They may be wintered in a cold frame, or taken into the house, where 

 they will bloom from February to May. 



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THE insects which infest the Rose are quite numerous ; but as their 

 habits are comparatively but little known, it has thus far been very 

 difficult to arrest their ravages, or sensibly diminish their number, by 

 artificial means. At least forty distinct species are described by Euro- 

 pean naturalists, but many of them do not exist among us. The only 

 reliable authority on this subject, in this country, is Dr. T. W. Harris, 

 of Harvard University. From his "Report on the Insects Injurious 

 to Vegetation in Massachusetts," we copy the following, which, doubt- 

 less, will be acceptable to all who are not in possession of his work : 



The saw fly of the Rose, which, as it does not seem to have been 

 described before, may be called Selandria rosce, from its favorite plant, 

 so nearly resembles the slug-worm sav fly as not to be distinguished 



