CERmiN ERADICATION OF ROSE -BUGS 



ITH surprise I read a letter received some- 

 time ago from a subscriber describing the 

 condition of her rose garden, particularly the 

 beds devoted to white roses. She says: " The 

 rose-bugs are so numerous, they are in a 

 solid mass covering all the white roses which 

 now hardly bear any resemblance to roses, they are so eaten, 

 so disfigured, so blighted by these seemingly uncontrollable 

 rose-bugs. They grow worse each year, and every garden about 

 here is in almost the same condition as mine. In some of the 

 gardens the rose beds are all under thin cheese cloth tents, 

 but my rose garden is rather large and I can not * tent ' it. 

 I have more white roses than any others because they are 

 my favorites. The hand-picking advised by every one as the 

 only method of getting rid of these pe^s I have had faithfully 

 tried by my gardeners who have worked conscientiously at 

 hand-picking, but each year the rose-bugs increase! " S& SSi 



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