214 INSECTS. 



Nothing but close attention will save your rose- 

 buds from being perforated by him and ruined. 

 No decoctions or infusions are of any use ; the only 

 remedy is the crushing one. 



There is also the rose grub to be guarded against. 

 It is something like a very short brown caterpillar ; 

 he eats into the young and succulent shoot, and 

 must be carefully sought for ; his small entrance 

 perforated in the young summer shoot of the rose 

 may sometimes be seen; he should be at once 

 dug out and despatched : there is no cure but this, 

 for if the parent moths are prevented laying their 

 eggs in holes, they will find crevices small but con- 

 venient. Number four of our enemies will make 

 our list complete, at least as far as we know- 

 but there may be hidden foes. 



Our present subject is the larva of the saw-fly : 

 this most tiresome pest makes its appearance from 

 July till quite the end of summer, more par- 

 ticularly in dry hot weather, and in warm dry 

 soils. The rose cultivator, if he sees some leaves 

 veined with semi-transparent veins, must at once 

 be on the alert and turn up each leaf to find the 

 enemy; he will soon be found at work eating 

 greedily the under surface of each leaf, so as to 

 make it almost a skeleton, and semi-transparent. 

 He is an ugly little fellow, and cold and clammy 

 like a slug, but he must be sought for diligently, 

 and crushed at once, otherwise your rose garden 

 in a few weeks would become a garden, not of 



