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MY LIFE AS A NATURALIST 



buds, Wasps when the fruit is ripening, and the amazing Aphis 

 which infests the Rosebuds and Apples. To cope with the 

 Green Fly is a formidable task, and I have never discovered any 

 more satisfactory method, distasteful though it is, than picking 

 them off, and crushing between thumb and finger. 



I may here give a brief alphabetical list of my favourite Roses, 

 which I grow successfully for pleasure, and not for exhibition : 

 Betty, Caroline Testout, Grass An Teplitz, Harry Kirk, Hugh 

 Dickson, Joseph Hill, Lady Battersea, Lady Hillingdon, Lyon, 

 Madame Abel Chatenay, Marie Van Houtte, Melaine Soupert, 

 Mons Paul Lede, Pharasaer, Viscountess Folkestone, and over 



the verandah, that sweetly- 



\ J scented and clean-growing 



'-.. ,..-'' climber, Allister Stella 



Grey. All these varieties 

 are profuse bloomers, and 

 may be safely recom- 

 mended to any of my 

 readers desirous of having 

 a small collection of these 

 beautiful garden flowers. 

 Of the large array of 

 Butterflies, Moths, and 

 other insects of the 

 garden it is not possible 



for me to set out even a bare list. None, with the exception 

 of the Winter and Codlin Moths, perpetrate any great harm, 

 and I do not kill either larva, pupa, or adult insect of any 

 others, excepting these. At least, I do not follow the precept 

 of a relative of my own, who has an extraordinary desire 

 to kill every living thing found in his garden, except the 

 plants he has himself put in, and those, at best, are very 

 poor specimens. 



There are some plants I grow in my garden because they are 

 an attraction for certain kinds of insects. Such, for example, 

 is the Sedum. I cannot give the variety, but it is of compact 

 growth, has large heads of pink blossom in the Autumn, at a 

 time when the mixed border requires brightening, and it is of 

 unfailing attraction for that handsome Butterfly, the Red 

 Admiral. I always look forward with pleasant anticipation to 

 the advent of the Sedum's flat heads of bloom, and the visit of 

 gay-clad Red Admirals, whose brilliant colours are beautifully 



FIG. 89. RED ADMIRAL 

 BUTTERFLY. 



