94 How TO Geow Cut Fi.owers. 



them in high priced ice boxes. In the cooling cellar, 

 pains should be taken to prevent the ingress of warm 

 air. The entrance should be used as little as possible 

 during a warm day. 



CHAPTER XXVI. 



INSECT ENEMIES. 



From the day Adam found himself surrounded by 

 " thorns and thistles," until the present time, it would 



seem that everything beauti- 

 ful in nature had an enemy 

 to either mar or destroy it, 

 and the higher the degree of 

 cultivation to which they are 

 brought, the more numerous 

 do these pests seem to become, 

 and the more malignant are 

 their attacks. Insect enemies 

 of all kinds have increased 

 'so rapidly of late, as to require 

 the services of experts from 

 Fig. 23. ' government stations to inves- 

 tigate cause and cure, but not in all oases have they 

 been able to point out the latter. 



Red Spider is one of the most ancient as well as ever- 

 present enemies of the rose. While very minute, it 



