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summer, and wlien tlie full grown ones disappear suddenly there is 

 really jnuch to be apprehended. The worm enters the ground, and 

 in a few days emerges as a beautiful little golden-tinged fly that is 

 ready to deposit eggs for another brood, and when all of the first are 

 gone, a still greater army may be expected. The most efi'ectual 

 remedy known to the public is white hellebore in powder. This 

 dusted over the bushes thoroughly, while they are moist, or if the 

 leaves are dry mix with water, and with a wisp or brush wet all the 

 leaves. Do this to each brood as soon as practicable after they 

 appear, and your bushes are safe. The berries are never taken, but 

 do not ripen properly without the leaves. By allowing the currants 

 to remain a few days exposed to the weather, and thoroughly washing 

 before using, no bad efiects will follow eating them. 



The Rose Slug. 



Mr. ]\I. Quimby. — A great many persons have seen statements in 

 papers that two or three ounces of whale oil soap, dissolved in a gal- 

 lon of water, will, when properly applied, kill the rose slug. But 

 how many do it ? A great many having no particular fancy for roses 

 will take no pains to save them. Others fully intend to apply the 

 remedy the present season, but the soap is to be purchased of the 

 seedsman or druggist, and is neglected, till some morning nearly 

 every leaf appears like so many patches of beautifully notched coarse 

 brown paper ; the cellular tissue being all consumed by the slug. 

 Then it does not pay to do an^'thing, unless to kill off a few, and 

 make a less number another year. Others, again, would willingly 

 take the trouble if they knew how. I propose to say how* I did. A 

 small black fly, three-eighths of an inch in length, with large wings^ 

 deposits its eggs soon after the leaves appear, which hatch in about a 

 week, at first too small for the naked eye. When they can be seen 

 it is time to operate. The worm has to come to the upper side of the 

 leaf to feed several times during the day, at which time they should 

 be sprinkled with the above mentioned whale oil soap-suds till every 

 leaf is wet. Every wonn or slug that is touched will be killed. A 

 part of them remain on the under side and are not touched ; but 

 in a few hom-s two or three will come up for a meal, when another 

 sprinkling will finish them. As much later, another sprinkling 

 finishes the whole. If the eggs for these worms were all hatched 

 at one time, the labor could all be done in a day ; but as the laying 

 extends through a period of a week or two, the hatching will be in 



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