INSECTS liNJURIOUS TO THE ROSE. 



THE EOSE-SLUG. 



{Selandria Rosce, Harris.) 



Order of HYMENOPTERA. Family of Tenthredinid^. 



Harris's Treatise, p. 525. 



Few things are more distressing to a person of taste and refine- 

 ment than the blasted and ruined aspect which the rose bushes, 

 almost everywhere, have, for many years past, presented. In 

 traveling througii various parts of the State, in the course of the 

 past summer, I have seen many gardens upon which much labor 

 and money had been expended, rendered unsightl}' by the lifeless 

 skeletons of these queenly plants, which should have been their 

 ornament and pride. Those who suffer most from this sad spec- 

 tacle are the women, who being naturally more refined than men, 

 are, in the same proportion, greater lover of flowers. Now, if by 

 anything that I can say, I can put the fair women of the land in 

 the way to restore their lost darlings to their pristine life and 

 loveliness, I have no doubt that they would unhesitatingly con- 

 clude that the office of State Entomologist is a great institution, 

 and I should not be much surprised if they should combine to pay 

 the salary of the incumbent, as people sometimes raise monuments 

 to the great and the good, by the universal payment of penny 

 contributions. 



Well, I believe all this can be done — 1 mean the roses saved, 

 not the monument built — at a very trifling expense, and without 

 any great amount of labor, by the general putting in practice of 

 knowledge which has long been had by the few, and in reiterating 

 which I therefore lay no claim to originality. All the merit I can 

 assume is in explaining a little more fully than our writers have 



