The Rose-Chafer 



ment to them, but the minute it stopped They prefer 

 raining they reappeared, more numerous 

 and hearty than ever, and made up nobly 

 for lost time. They show a curious pref- 

 erence for old-fashioned Roses, and will 

 devour them, leaving a bed of hybrids of 

 modern varieties almost untouched, and 

 they never are found here on the Tea 

 Roses. They will eat the hardy Hy- 

 drangea voraciously, but do not affect the 

 Weigelia. They spoil the Snowballs, but 

 do not meddle with Lilacs. We have 

 some young Canoe Birches that are strug- 

 gling for existence, and I always imagine 

 the departing caterpillar exchanging com- 

 pliments with the arriving rose-bug, and 

 recommending them to his particular at- 

 tention, after the fashion of guzzling Jack 

 and gorging Jimmy : 



Here 's little Billee, he 's young and tender, 

 They 're old and tough, so let 's eat he, 



Positively, if, during three or four weeks Thy de 

 of their stay, those insects were not fought 

 tooth and nail, there would not be one 

 leaf left upon those unhappy little trees. 

 As it is, when the brutes depart, the 

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