Evergreen Lodge, 
method of working their destruction. Take some tobacco stems and 
place in a tub or vessel or some kind, and pour boiling- water upon them 
until the liquid has the color of strong tea; after it cools off sufficiently 
to handle it, apply it to the Rose with a syringe or wisk broom ; a little 
soft soap or whale oil soap added to the solution will greatly aid it in its 
efficacy. 
MILDEW. 
This is a fungous disease often caused by great and sudden atmos- 
pheric changes, and a long continuance of damp cloudy weather. The 
best remedy is sulphur, and should be applied the moment the disease 
makes its appearance, which is in the form of a white or grayish sub- 
stance covering the leaves and causing them to crimple and become 
deformed. The plants should be sprinkled first with water so that the 
sulphur will stick ; the best plan though is to apply it in the morning- 
while the dew is upon the plants. After a few days the sulphur will all 
fall off and the mildew disappear. This treatment applies to Roses 
grown both in-doors and out, but if grown in a pit or greenhouse the 
best way is to mix the sulphur with water to the consistency of a good 
stiff paint, and apply it to the pipes or heating apparatus in the house 
with a brush. The fumes given off from this will at once check the 
ravages of the mildew. 
RED SPIDER. 
This is a most destructive little insect, and generally commits its rav- 
ages in a greenhouse or pit, and only make their appearance when 
favored by a hot and dry atmosphere. These are very small, scarcely 
distinguishable by the nakad eye; if isolated, they are of a dark reddish 
brown color, found on the under side of the leaves, and cause the foliage 
to assume a yellow tinge, and soon make sickly the plants they infest. 
A few applications of whale soap dissolved in warm water, mixed with 
tobacco water, applied with a syringe and thrown upward so as to strike 
the underside of the leaves, will soon destroy them. This insect does 
not attack plants that are syringed with water daily, and all plants 
grown under glass, not in flower, should be sprinkled overhead with 
water daily. 
BLACK SPOT. 
This disease seems to be troublesome in many places, and Rose grow- 
ers in the Northern States have suffered much from its ravages. It has 
of late made its appearance in many places in the South, although at 
present it is not generally known. The Hybrid Perpetuals and the 
Hybrid Teas appear to suffer most from it. As its name implies, it is a 
black spot that comes upon the leaves of the Rose, and gives it a some- 
what blighted appearance. As soon as the plant becomes infested with 
it, it loses all its vigor and will cease to make further growth. The real 
cause of Black Spot is at present a disputed question, some contending 
that it first affects the plants through the leaves; others again contend 
that it is caused by a loss of root action ; but as far as we have been able 
to investigate, there are no two cases exactly alike, so that it is very 
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