While visiting the garden of my friend, Mrs. R---------, this September (1887), my admiration was called forth by her remarkably fine roses, many of which were blooming vigorously. I asked her how she had kept them in such good condition. She told me that in the spring, just after the leaves were formed, she had syringed them well with suds made of whale-oil soap. She was careful to throw this upward so as to strike the under surface of the leaves. After once commencing to bloom, they had continued all summer, and not a slug was to be seen upon them. While in the C. E. Cemetery, not far distant, where there are many roses, none were to be seen without skeletonized leaves, or suffering in some way from the slugs.

As this prevention is so easy to accomplish, one thorough syringing answering, it is well to make known Mrs. R.'s experience to those who have not tried this method. Reading, Pa.