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the plant's vitality at the expense of new flowering 

 shoots that are starting vigorously from various 

 parts. Cut off these bygone stems, as they interfere 

 with food, light and air necessary for the small crop 

 of good blossoms you should yet garner. Soon rest- 

 ing time will come for roses and you should hasten 

 the maturity of the remaining flower crop as much 

 as possible. If you are troubled with mildew use 

 sulphur sprinkled by hand over vines and surface of 

 ground beneath. Do this on a hot day, for it is the 

 fumes only, created by the sun's heat, that destroy 

 the mildew. 



Sulphur used in cool, cloudy weather avails noth- 

 ing, and the fumes rise best from the heated surface 

 of the soil. Therefore, spray the vines or bushes first 

 with water, very lightly, so that sulphur will lodge 

 and stick on the sunny side of the wood, but aim to 

 keep the soil surface from getting so wet that sul- 

 phur will not "fume." Some old country garden- 

 ers put heated bricks beneath rose bushes and sprin- 

 kle sulphur on them ; this is an excellent practice if 

 one cares to take the trouble and does not get the 

 bricks too hot, for sulphur fumes in great volume 

 are injurious to all classes of vegetation. For this 

 reason scatter sulphur very thinly and evenly or 

 foliage in some parts may be damaged on hot days. 



JULY 



As one wanders along the highways and byways 

 during the summer he is oft impressed with the ex- 

 quisite beauty of some plant, shrub or tree in a seem- 

 ingly neglected garden, so perfectly in health and at 

 home that it seems as though specially designed for 

 the place. At this time out should come the notebook 

 and pencil and down should go the name of such 

 plant, for here indeed is the "proof of the pudding." 



