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tree, the Plum and the Apple. They laugh at whale-oil soap 

 and decoctions of tobacco ; they get fat upon all the applications 

 hitherto made for their destruction. Whether they can eat 

 white hellebore with impunity we can not say, not having 

 made trial of their powers of digesting it. The only known 

 remedy is that of picking them off and crushing them. Fortu- 

 nately they are of a sluggish habit, and are easily caught. 



And now we come to the Eoses themselves. We shaU not 

 weary our readers with long disquisitions on classification. Those 

 who are curious on these points, may read some of the books in 

 which this matter is folly discussed, but since hybridists have 

 taken the Eose in hand, the old lines of distinction have been 

 nearly obliterated. It is quite enough for our purpose, and that 

 of our readers, to group them under a few natural divisions. We 

 have therefore adopted the following, as, on the whole, the most 

 convenient division, and group them under, Climbing, Summer, 

 Autumnal, and Monthly Eoses. 



Climbing Eoses. — In our climate, we must content ourselves 

 with the hardy Prairie Roses, or those which have a large infu- 

 sion of prairie blood. We can not grow Gloire de Dijon in the 

 open air, nor climbing Devoniensis, nor, alas, that glory of Yellow 

 Eoses, Marechal Mel, when trained above the snow line. But 

 the coarser Prairie Eoses will endure thq climate in a large part 

 of the Dominion. They are strong, rapid growers, having luxu- 

 riant foliage and great abundance of bloom. The flowers are borne in 

 large clusters, and open in succession, so that the plant is in bloom 

 for a considerable time. The season of blooming is a little later 

 than that of the great mass of our Eoses, so that they come into 

 full bloom just as the other varieties are passing away. 



Qiteen of the Prairie. — This is probably the best of the family, 

 being hardy and luxuriant. The color of the flowers is a bright 

 rosy-red, the form, globular and somewhat cupped, of good size, 

 and produced in great profusion. They are without scent, and 

 their beauty is not ill the individual flowers, but in the mass of 

 bloom. 



