112 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUKlST. 



I find the wild ones in the woods are also infested with tlie slug. The 

 slug when full grown is about on^eighth of an inch long, brown, and 

 when crushed, full of a yellow liquid ; they are on the inside and out-^ 

 side of leaves. 



TEEE EOSES AND WEEPING ROSES. 



Since the remarks in our article on Roses, on the impossibility of 

 growing these in this climate, were written, the following notes on this 

 subject by one who evidently speaks from personal experience have 

 attracted our attention, and we give them a place here because it is 

 desirable that the public should be made acquainted with the fact that 

 they have been tried many years ago, and found to be a failure in such 

 a climate as ours. In a picture, the tree-rose laden with roses of 

 several colors, or gracefully drooping, like a weeping tree, under its 

 burden of pink, and scarlet, and yellow blooms, looks beautiful, and the 

 expenditure of from three to five dollars to possess such an ornament 

 to one's gTOUiids seems reasonable, but it is well to know that at best 

 in a year or two it will fail. Our writer says, much as I admire those 

 beautiful things, standard or tree-roses, I am afraid they will never 

 become really established in our gardens, or do us much good in the 

 long ran. I have had in my garden and on my lawn about fifty 

 specimens. They were all, but ten, imported plants, got out by a 

 neighbor of mine at different times witliin five years. Little by little 

 they have all died off. At first they thriA^ed and bloomed very well. 

 Afterwards they were gradually affected by the winters, and one after 

 another I lost them. Then again, I fancy that our summers are too hot 

 for the tall naked stems. They seem to get dry and shrivelled, and 

 therel)y they affect the growth and health of the top. I am aU the 

 more convinced of this since I have seen some specimens grown by a 

 neighbor. He covers the stem with moss bound around them. This 

 he leaves on all the year. It undeniably gives more health and vigor 

 to the head, but it also gives the whole tree-rose, so unsightly, bandaged, 

 a look that I cannot endure it in a neat place. On the whole, therefore, 

 I shall feel obliged to return to the old, and in the main more satis-- 

 factory mode of growing roses. Farther south, say at Baltimore or 

 Cincinnati, where the weather is not so cold, in winter, no doubt stan- 

 dard roses will do Better. 



