CHAPTEE IX 



PESTS 



In treating of Pests which injure Eoses, it will be 

 understood that I naturally refer only to those which 

 are to be found in the British Isles : and perhaps even 

 within those limits there may be some (though not 

 many, I think) which have not come under my 

 personal observation. 



Insects. — A large number of insects of different 

 sorts are injurious to Eoses and Eose plants, and I 

 do not propose to treat of these entomologically but 

 only from the Eosarian's point of view — what they 

 are, what harm they do, and how to destroy them. 

 As to what they are, which in ordinary scientific 

 description would mean giving the generic and specific 

 Latin names of each, my very slight investigations 

 into the matter tend to show that this is no simple 

 task, the specific and even generic names depending 

 a good deal upon the authority studied and followed. 

 However, a remembrance of the many Eose 

 synonyms for the same flowers convinces me that 

 it is not politic for Eosarians to find much fault in this 

 direction ; and in most cases what we want to know is 

 how to keep the enemies off, and how to find them 



