CATALOGUE OF ROSES. 
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Insects. These are the bugbear* which prevent many from cultivating the 
Queen of Flowers, but they offer little discouragement to loyal subjects, for generally 
it is only the careless and indolent who greatly suffer from these pests. If proper 
attention is paid to soil, planting, watering, etc., and a few simple directions heeded, 
you will not often be greatly troubled. The Aphis is among the most annoying foes, 
and particularly infest plants in houses; healthy plants in the garden are but little 
liable to their attacks. There are numerous recipes for their destruction, and the 
cultivator can use those which are most convenient and efficacious. 
The vapor of tobacco is not only very effective in destroying insects where it can 
be confined, as in greenhouses, but it is less injurious to delicate plants than either 
the smoke or the liquid. Hence, instead of fumigating greenhouses, it is customary 
now to strew the ground under the plants with tobacco stems, which being moistened 
by the syringing, creates a vapor, which is destructive to insect life. This method 
will probably supersede the old way of fumigating with tobacco smoke, which we 
have always found up to the present time, the best mode where appliances can b6 
had for confining the smoke ; this, however, is not very convenient for use in 
dwelling houses, but we have other excellent remedies which are more practicable. 
Take four ounces of quassia chips, and boil them ten minutes in a gallon of soft 
water ; strain off the chips and add four ounces of soft soap, which should be disssolved 
in it as it cools, stirring well before using. It may be applied with a clean painter’s 
brush of moderate or small size, brushing every leaf and shoot that is infested. After 
fifteen or twenty minutes have elapsed, the plants should be washed or S3’ringed with 
pure water. Another good remedy is the same as above only tobacco stems— 
say a quarter or a pound—are used instead of quassia. 
In the month of May, or as soon as the leaves li^ve pushed forth, the rose 
caterpillar makes it appearance ; he can readily be detected, for he glues a leaf or 
two together to form his shelter. Every day the bushes should be gone over, and 
these glued leaves pinched between the finger and thumb, so as to crush the 
caterpillar ; let no fastidious grower neglect this, or be induced to try other remedies ; 
this is the only one that is simple and effective. For other insects, such as the saw 
fly, larvae, and all such as come at a later date than the caterpillar, an occasional 
syringing, vigorously applied, will prove an excellent preventive. When they have 
made their appearance, a sprinkling of powdered white hellebore over the plants will 
often destroy or disperse them ; but the plants should be well moistened before the 
hellebore is applied, so that it will remain. The red spider may be generally kept 
off by keeping the plants daily syringed with water. When plants are once infested 
with this dreaded insect, the fumes of sulphur will alone disperse or destroy them. 
This application will, of course, cause the foliage to drop off, but it is the only 
remedy we know to be efficacious. The red spider very seldom attacks plants in the 
open air, but confines itself to the plants under glass. 
For the rose bug, hand picking must be resorted to, for, like the red spider, it is 
proof against hellebore, whale-oil soap, and all such applications. 
Mildew. This disease is generally caused by extremes of heat and cold, and 
by a long continuance of damp, cloudy weather. The best remedies are sulphur and 
soot ; one of these should be applied the moment the disease makes it appearance. 
It is a good plan to previously sprinkle the plants with water, so that the substance 
applied will adhere. 
