CHAPTER Ix 
PESTS 
In treating of Pests which injure Roses, it will be 
understood that I naturally refer only to those which 
are to be found in the British Isles: and perhaps even 
within those limits there may be some (though not 
many, I think) which have not come under my 
personal observation. 
InsEects.—A large number of insects of different 
sorts are injurious to Roses and Rose plants, and I 
do not propose to treat of these entomologically but 
only from the Rosarian’s point of view—what they 
are, what harm they do, and how to destroy them. 
As to what they are, which in ordinary scientific 
description would mean giving the generic and specific 
Latin names of each, my very slight investigations 
into the matter tend to show that this is no simple 
task, the specific and even generic names depending 
a good deal upon the authority studied and followed. 
However, a remembrance of the many Rose 
synonyms for the same flowers convinces me that 
it is not politic for Rosarians to find much fault in this 
direction ; and in most cases what we want to know is 
how to keep the enemies off, and how to find them 
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