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prevent the wind from blowing it away. A few 
fern branches will be sufficient protection for the 
head, as the loss of the top part of the plant is 
not of much importance; provided the roots and 
the lower parts or crown are preserved, there 
will generally be found a sufficient number of 
young shoots emitted from below. Nature often 
provides the best of all protections—snow, a good 
thick coating of which, durimg severe frost, is 
sutiicient to protect the roots and crowns of all 
Roses on their own roots or budded low down upon 
the Manetti or other stocks. 
InsEects.—There are very many insects which are 
injurious and destructive to the Rose, but none 
more so than the Green Rose Chafer or Golden 
Rose Beetle, and the Antler Rose Sawfly, both of 
which feed upon the young leaves, shoots, and buds. 
In the Book of the Garden we have the following 
excellent description of these two insects:—‘ The 
Green Rose Chafer or Gold Rose Beetle (Cetonia 
aurata—Scarabeus auratus of some entomologists) 
is one of our largest and most beautiful beetles, 
easily recognised by its bright green colour, some- 
times reflecting a rich golden or copper tint. The 
wings are very long, of a brownish colour, folded 
under the horny wing cases, which have a few white 
lines placed transversely, resembling cracks, and 
scattered over them. On the under-side they are of 
a fine coppery tint, sometimes inclining to rose 
colour. The horns are short, the scutel forming an 
elongated triangle. They are readily found, en- 
veloped in the petals of the Rose, and, trom their 
