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Show ROSE-SLUG. . I C. P. Gillette. The rose-slug has become a sciious enemy to cultivated roses in many places. Tho insect is double broodc I and is comparatively ctiy pest i keep iiv control. 'I'be ndult is n black lly shout a large as the ordinary house lly. Early in June eggs arc deposited within tlw tifsue of thc leaves and the litti : slugs hatch from them and eat off tin green tissue of thc upper surface of the leaves. When these lugs mature they descend to the ground and pass the pupa stage in sHften cocoons w'.'ch the slugs spin about themselves. them-selves. About two weeks later the second brood of flies appears and deposits de-posits eggs, as in th$ case of the spring brood, nd' again the rose bushes are defoliatod. The best remedy to use against tills insect is white hallebore, which may be lightly dusted over the foliage from a small clmosecloth sack, preferably pre-ferably towards evening or the hellebore helle-bore may be put into water in the proportion of one ouno to three gal- Ions, nd then the foliage is treated , by sprinkling or spraying this poii-orced poii-orced water over the bashes. There. need be no fe$fjCflW8PHMs poisqjp quite freely frfrf'hc dcsfttiction of the slugs, at it loses its poisonous proper H tie quito rapidly when it is exposed H to the air, and it require a consider- H able quantity of it to produce j -N- H onnui effects upon man. |