The Rose-Chafer 



he knows a foliage plant very early in its 

 career, and his taste is always for red 

 rather than green. 



" The snail is a much underrated power ; The 

 his calmness, his persistence, his retiring 

 nature, his thick-skinned endurance, make 

 him a type that is bound to survive, and I 

 predict for him a glorious future. If he 

 can only find enough fools to cultivate 

 gardens for his use he will enter in and 

 possess the land, and develop into some- 

 thing quite grand." All of which quota- 

 tion, with slight variation, will answer for 

 our winged pest. 



I was quite touched by the prediction The future 

 of a member of the horticultural society g ^ n y^ r "{ y 

 of that State, that apparently the whole of 

 southern New Jersey will have to be aban- 

 doned to the rose-bug. This adds a new 

 terror to the already complicated legisla- 

 tion of that unhappy region, for I am con- 

 vinced, from my experience, that if the 

 rose-bug wants anything he will get it, and 

 no doubt we shall live to see him sitting 

 in the gubernatorial chair. 

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