90 Roses for Amateurs. 



Rose Friends and Foes. 



Few plants, and certainly none that may be regarded as 

 universally popular, suffer like the Rose from the unwelcome 

 attention of pests. To give anything like a complete 

 enumeration would need a volume : all that is possible 

 here is to deal with what may be rightly regarded as the 

 worst and to furnish either preventive or remedial 

 measures. It is scarcely necessary to add that, belonging 

 as the insect and other pests do to widely -different Orders, 

 there is no preparation that is suited for all : each must 

 really be dealt with individually. And similarly with 

 regard to the fungi. A moment's reflection, so far as most 

 animal pests are concerned, should suffice to show that a 

 preparation that might with benefit be employed against an 

 insect that chews would be of little avail against one that 

 sucks the caterpillars of the Sawflies and the widely- 

 prevalent and numerous species of Aphides are excellent 

 examples of the two sections. There are many others. To 

 those who appreciate good decorative flowers, or who 

 require show specimens, it is absolutely necessary that the 

 plants be kept free from pests of all kinds. As 

 an alphabetical enumeration of these under the two 

 headings proposed would seem to be the one tending to 

 facility of reference this has been adopted. 



So accustomed are we to regard as harmful, and with truth, 

 the majority of insects found in the garden that we are apt 

 to lose sight of the comparative few that are working in the 

 interest of man. It is with the idea of assisting in the pre- 

 servation of these latter that we would briefly refer to the 

 way that many of the worst enemies of the Rose are held in 

 check by certain insects that often, being found side by side 

 with the pests, are liable to be destroyed. 



Apart from the actual insecticide or fungicide employed, 

 there is another point that is too frequently overlooked as 

 of little importance namely, the spraying agent. This is 



