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Subject: Re: Something is eating my roses
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Date: 17 Aug 90 16:56:56 GMT
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From article <3917@bwdls58.UUCP>, by cls@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Carol Sullivan):
> I have a couple of roses and although I routinely
> still end up with the leaves covered in holes. Can

	If the holes are as if someone had taken sissors to them, a dn cut
in a semi-circle, it is leaf cutter wasps.  Don't know what you can do
about it, they really don't seem to harm my roses.  JUst makes them a bit
unsightly close up.


> Another rose question. I had a couple of rose plants that
> produced leaves but no roses. A couple of people have told         
> me that the plants have gone wild. Will they ever produce

	If the rose does this 2 years in a row and the others are blooming
(eg proper fertilizer, etc) - dig it up and throw it out.  It has indeed
gone wild and will never produce flowers.  As the rose expert at the Denver
Botanical Gardens told me - why waste time and fertilizer, etc., on something
that won't produce.

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