Judies’ floral lanfiLiiet imtl Pictorial 3HEome ^GRipa-iiion. 
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A MESSENGER. 
Go, little rose ! 
With all your dewy freshness, 
To my darling. And when 
You see her face, with its fair kindness, 
Greet her with my love 
And say I sent you. 
And if by some sweet, chance 
She clasps you to her breast, 
0 little rose ! stay softly still 
In happy rest : 
And as each tender heart-beat 
Moves you gently to and fro, 
Keep guard about her for me, rose, 
Because I love her so ! 
When evening gloaming 
Walks abroad the earth, 
And shadows gather, as the day is done, 
Oh ! then, my messenger, I charge you, 
Give her this (I press it 
Softly on your crimson leaves). 
Go, my rose, and fold her in a mute caress— 
She with her growing loveliness— 
And give the kiss I send 
With all my heart’s fond love, 
And say I sent you. 
— II. Bussell, in N. 0. Picayune. 
BOUQUETS OE FLOWERS. 
With but little trouble any person can keep up a 
constant succession of beautiful flowers in the house 
Scented Geranium—“Lady Plymouth.” 
from the holidays until the season of their blooming 
in the yard or garden. To do this cut some small 
twigs of the various flowering shrubs or trees growing 
in the yard or lawn, and put them in bottles or jars 
containing pure water. If the weather is very cold 
when the twigs are cut, care must be taken not to 
injure the buds, which is very easily done when they j This method of producing flowers in winter is by 
are frozen. After the twigs are cut lay' them in a ' no means a new one. My r mother used to practise it 
cool room a few hours, then put them in the bottles when I was a little boy. G. I • N. 
of water and let them remain two days in a cool 
place where the water will not freeze, after which 
they should be brought to the heat gradually. They 
Scented Geranium—“ Lavender.” 
will bloom if brought to the warmth when first cut, 
but the flowers and foliage are not so strong and 
luxuriant. After bringing them to the warmth the 
bottles should be filled up with freshwater every day'. 
When treated in this way, all the following-named 
shrubs bloom nicely: Daphne Mezereum, Forsythia, 
Spiraea Prnuifolia, Deutzia Gracilis, Lilac (white and 
purple), Pyrus Japonica, Syringa, Weigela, and 
many' others. The twigs of the Cercis Canadensis 
(Judas tree, sometimes called lied Bud, which grows 
very abundantly in many places in our woodlands) 
when thus treated give a great profusion of beautiful 
red and purplish pink flowers, and are exceedingly' 
beautiful. 
I use Hyacinth bottles, the tall ones of different 
colors. Beginning early in the winter with the 
Daphne and the Forsythia, they being among the 
first bloomers of spring, I tie a few twigs together 
with a soft woollen string (if tied tight it stops the 
flow of the sap), put them into the bottles and give 
them plenty of light and water, and in two or three 
weeks have a nice bunch of flowers, the red contrast¬ 
ing beautifully' with the yellow. In about a week 
after starting the first I set a couple more bottles, 
and so on until the fine warm weather of spring 
produces them out on the lawn. The Japan quince 
does not produce flowers on the small twigs of the 
last y'ear’s growth, but the buds are formed on the 
two-year-old wood; hence care must be exercised in 
selecting from this shrub, or no flower-buds will be 
obtained. I now have Forsythia, Spiraea Prunifolia, 
Lilac, Deutzia Gracilis, and Daphne Cneorurn in 
full bloom, making a beautiful display' in the win¬ 
dow. 
MlLLER.SB.UHG, 0 
INSECT ENEMIES OF THE ROSE. 
Rose-Slugs. —The body of the slug is about one- 
quarter of an inch long, green and soft like jelly. 
Slugs eat the upper surface of the leaf, leaving the 
veins and skin underneath untouched. 
They are most troublesome in June, and frequent¬ 
ly reappear in August. 
They increase very rapidly', and will destroy the 
foliage of the largest bushes in a few hours. 
The following are remedies used by various flor¬ 
ists. 
a. Take white hellebore powder, mix with water, 
and sprinkle over them. 
b. Dust the plants thoroughly with powdered 
lime, plus ter - of-p ar is, or ashes. 
c. Even road dust may be used instead of lime, 
and be as efficacious ; repeat vigorously as often as 
may be required. 
d. Sprinkle the plants thoroughly with a strong 
suds made of soft soap. 
e. Whale-oil soap, whenever it can he obtained, is 
the best of special insecticides. It is a powerful 
enemy' of all insect life, and is now for sale at all 
agricultural stores. Use one pound dissolved in 
eight gallons of water, or a quarter of a pound to two 
pails of water; applied by means of a syringe every 
evening for a week, it effectually destroys all trace 
of the nuisance. 
f. Another useful article fertile destruction of rose- 
slugs, and other insect enemies of the rose or other 
Lily of the Valley. 
sold 
garden plants, is found in the Persian Powder, 
by most florists. 
The powder should be applied three times to the 
rose-bushes before the buds appear, for after the 
buds have grown the powder mars the buds and the 
leaves. 
