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sene are recommended: spraying with arsenate of lead—five 
pounds to fifty gallons of water; or Paris green at the rate of 
one pound to two hundred gallons of water. The latter solu- 
tion injures the foliage. Since Paris green is a remedy, I do 
not see why one cannot use it as we do for the potato-bug, 
which is half a teaspoonful of it sifted in a quart of flour and 
dusted over plants when they are wet. This proportion is not 
injurious to foliage. The rose-bug is a gentle creature, and 
clings to a leaf until you get a fair hold on it, which makes 
capture an easy thing. 
Another rose pest is a small green worm that works on the 
under side of the leaf and leaves behind a brown skeleton fiber. 
Spraying helps a little, but it is better to stir into the ground 
a little air-slaked lime in early spring. One half of a rose bed 
where this was tried was quite free from the pest; the other 
half where no lime was used was eaten almost bare. Sprink- 
ling the under side of leaves with one tablespoonful of white 
hellebore to a pailful of boiling water is recommended. 
I was quite worn out by the time they departed, for their 
season was unusually long that first year of discovery, when 
to my distress I found the wild clematis vines almost denuded 
of leaves, also the Anemone Pennsylvanica was in tatters, and 
the new invader was a dark lead-colored bug almost an inch 
long, resembling a lightning-bug on the back, but with a huge 
gray abdominal expanse. It has a very small pin head which 
it carries in a spirited, cocky fashion, and drops at a touch. 
Later it infested the Japanese clematis, and proved a vora- 
cious devastator. I couldn’t hand pick this loathsome insect, 
but scraped it off into my kerosene box. 
Before this pest disappeared I found another and larger 
creature at work—my trials that particular summer grew like 
an inverted triangle, and if winter had not come to my relief, 
our garden pests would have increased to the size of a cat. 
