and I am mightily pleased that I have something 

 more agreeable to write about than the fear that the 

 rose-bugs were conquering them, much to the surprise 

 of my very skeptical head gardener who mo^ reluc- 

 tantly tried the " treatments " you sugge^ed, and 

 which, incidentally, I wish to say I, besmocked and 

 bonneted, supervised; yes, every one that was given. 

 There are some rose-bugs, a few — very few. There is a 

 mutilated bud or flower here and there, but they too 

 are few. I can hardly credit it, but it is a fact. I ordered 

 applications immediately on receiving your advice the 

 Summer before la^t, continuing them until late 

 Autumn as the season was so mild. This Spring 

 after the " cleaning up " and fir^ pruning had been 

 done, we again began using the sulphate of iron 53 

 There has been a very marked improvement in my 

 rose garden and surprisingly few rose-bugs and rose 

 beetles. 



^ A further illustration comes from another subscriber 

 who says that her roses " are finer, the foliage richer in tone 

 and, be^ of all, the rose-bugs are easily managed because 

 of their scarcity." 



^ The simplicity of this ultimate cure for rose-bugs, beetles, 

 chafers, etc., the simplicity of its application and the fadt 

 of its peculiar and important quality of de^roying and at 

 the same time improving and beautifying, mu^ convince 

 even the skeptical that sulphate of iron is a very welcome 

 remedy. It will de^roy fungoid growths that attack the 

 roots of rose plants and it will give vigor and new life to 

 exhau^ed soil. An ounce of the sulphate of iron, crushed 



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