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HOW TO DESTROY ly SECTS. 



the solution half as strong) \ repeat about twice during 

 the springy and you will have fine roses."" 



Quassia for Jtose-hugs , etc. 



The Illinois Horticnltural Society recommend quas- 

 sia as tlie best medicine for the insects that mutilate 

 rose-]jushes and many other garden shrubs. Make a 

 strong tea of (|uassia-bark — it costs ten or twelve cents 

 a pound wholesale — and drench the bushes. The little 

 pests will not fancy the taste auy better than sick chil- 

 dren do." 



Mose-slug. 



I have tried many remedies (so called) without ef- 

 fect, but for the last two summers I have kept my roses 

 clear of them by the following wash : Two ounces 

 alum, one ounce hellebore, to one gallon water, applied 

 with a syringe, once a week, during the season of the 

 slugs^ commencing when the leaves begin to appear. 



Mrs. J. C. 0." 

 *^ Get white hellebore, one ounce, and dissolve in a 

 pailful of soft, cold u ater, the colder the better. Take 

 it on a sunny morning after the dew is entirely dried 

 oif, put the mixture in a watering-pot, and give the 

 bushes a good sliowering, throwing it up under the 

 leaves as much as possible, wetting them all over thor- 

 oughly. It will not harm the bushes or roses in the 

 least : but. I assure you, the worm that gets his share 

 of the dose will eat rose-leaves no more for ever, Please 



