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recommend hand-picking and burning of the 

 bugs in preference. The application of tobacco- 

 water, whale-oil soap, etc. , is useless, for in order 

 to have any effect upon the bugs the solution 

 would have to be made so strong that it would 

 work injury to the plants. 



Rose Slug. — These slugs are the larva of a 

 saw-fly, called by Harris Telandria MoscBy an 

 insect about the size of a common house-fly, 

 which comes out of the ground during May and 

 June. The female flies puncture the leaves in 

 different places, depositing their eggs in each in- 

 cision made ; these eggs hatch in twelve or fif- 

 teen days after that they are laid. The slugs at 

 once commence to eat the leaves, and soon make 

 great inroads upon the foliage, if not checked. 

 They are about one-half inch long when fully 

 grown, of a green color, and feed upon the npper 

 portion of the foliage. The best remedies are 

 powdered white hellebore, or a solution of whale- 

 oil soap. 



White Grub. — These grubs are the young of 

 those buzzing, sticky abominations known as 

 May-bugs. The beetles are thus described by 

 Harris : ** During the month of May, they come 



