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roots should be filled in with well pulverized
soil, and this should be tramped in securely
around the bush. Roses require more or less
pruning for the removal of dead wood, to
make the bush symmetrical, and to encourage
the development of buds. Most rose growers
consider early spring the best time for prun-
ing. The chief insect pests to be combated
are the rose aphids or lice, which feed on
the juice of the plant, the rose-slug, the leaf-
hopper, the rose chafer, the rose midge, rose
curculio, and thrips. Spraying with arsenic
or a nicotine solution or destroying all in-

ister of public works, and in 1864 was named
by the British Government as commissioner
in the negotiations with the United States
in the settlement of the Oregon claims. In

1868 he floated the loan in England for the
completion of the Intercolonial Railway.
He retired from public life in Canada in

1869 and settled in England, but the same
year was appointed special commissioner to
Washington to arrange a new fisheries treaty
and to settle the Alabama Claims. He drew
up tin Treaty of Washington in 1870.

Rose, Roman de la, a French poetico-

Photo from A. T. De la Mare Co.

Roses.
Left, Scotch Briar; Right, Melody.

fested buds may be employed as remedial
measures.

Rose, Chauncey (1794-1877), American
merchant and philanthropist, was active, also,
in promoting railroad development hi Indiana
and other States. By a defective will, he be-
came sole heir to the fortune of his brother,
John, whose known wishes he carried out by
distributing more than a million dollars to
chanties in New York City and elsewhere,
He founded Rose Polytechnic Institute, at
Terre Haute.

Rose, Sir John (1820-88), Canadian
statesman. From 1858 to 1861 be was min-

satirical allegory of the i3th century, which
for three hundred years influenced all liter-
ary work from lyric to drama, and from ser-
mon to prose tale. It is written in octosylla-
bic verse, and contains over 23,000 lines.
Though prolix and often trifling, the work
abounds in vigorous description, realistic
portraiture, and eloquent invective.

Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose,
Fifth Earl of, and First Earl of Midlo-
thian (1847-1929), British statesman, was
born in London. From 1881 to 1883 he was
Undersecretary of State for Home Affairs,
and in 1886 was Foreign Secretary, becora-