Show CARING FOR ROSES caring for roses and other flowering shrubbery includes judicious pruning to remove dead superfluous canes as well as spraying against the many insects which attack them clipping off merely the ends to secure a well rounded plant includes light from the inner branches species which bloom in the spring like viburnum snowballs deutzia and forsythia should be pruned in june after flowering for the first two years after new plantings are made shrubs should have one third to one half of the previous years growth removed in march or april the most common insects affecting shrubbery are arc scale and plant lice the scale can be controlled by spraying with a pint of ume lime sulphur solution in a gallon galion of water in april in severe cases the same spray may also be applied ape fall after the leaves iii pd the plant lice bee are killed ly by spraying with i a solution made by putting one to two teaspoonfuls of 40 per peer cent nicotine sulp sulphate liate in a gallon of water A small hand spray my may be used to apply these th mixtures |