100 GARDENING FOR PLEASURE. 



any other fungoid growth, and also holds in check, 

 to some extent, the red spider, an insect often so 

 troublesome to the Rose. In the summer, or at any 

 season of the year \\hen no fire is used, it is well to 

 dust the foliage lightly with a mixture of sulphur and 

 tobacco dust once a week, after the leaves have been wet 

 by syringing or watering, so as to kill the aphis or green 

 fly and prevent mildew at the same time. 



THE ROSE-BUG OF THE GREENHOUSE. 



For the Rose-bug (Aramigus Fulleri), so detrimental 

 to success in Rose growing under glass, there seems no 

 sure remedy except the slow one of catching and killing 

 the insect as soon as it is seen on the leaves. It is not 

 easily observed, as it gets under the leaves and close to 

 the shoots of the plants. Its presence is known by the 

 bitten leaves showing where it is feeding. It will be un- 

 derstood that it is not the Rose-bug in its perfect state 

 that does the injury. The bug deposits its eggs close to 

 the root of the plant ; these quickly hatch into larvae or 

 maggots, which at once begin to feed on the roots of the 

 Rose, destroying it completely. Many years ago we 

 adopted the plan of paying our boys one cent apiece for 

 the bugs which they caught at their dinner-hour, and by 

 this method have completely kept them under, so that to 

 see one now is a rarity. The perfect bug is of grayish 

 color, about half an inch in length, and somewhat of the 

 appearance of the common beetle. Hundreds fail to 

 succeed in growing Roses from no other cause than that 

 the roots of the plants are being sapped by this insidious 

 pest. 



For the best results in winter forcing of the Rose, or, in 

 fact, for the production of any kind of fruit or flower 

 during the dull winter months, it is all important that 

 the greenhouse be such as to give the greatest amount of 



