THE FLORIST. 
93 
RESULTS OF FOLLOWING GOOD ADVICE. 
Well, since we parted, I have acted upon your advice, and procured 
the magnifying-glass you recommended me to do; and that I have 
not been idle, this drawing will testify. But, first, I may tell you 
that I have found a surprising quantity of the little maggot we last 
talked about, particularly amongst my Hybrid Perpetual Roses, in the 
old snags of which, both in the dead wood and alive, I have sometimes 
found as many as two or three very active, and ready to emerge from 
their winter quarters. In some of the larger spurs I have found goodly 
sized green caterpillars, to whom the bud of a perpetual in a young 
state would furnish but a scanty meal. But in the drawing before 
us you see a deposit of a different kind altogether. There is nothing 
in the [^appearance of No. 1 to arrest the naked eye; but placed 
beneath the magnifying glass, a quantity of eggs are discovered, as 
in No. 2. So, again, with the leaf of Ancectochilus setaceus, or 
King of the Woods; a scarcely perceptible disfigurement of its sur¬ 
face inducing me to examine it with my new pocket companion, I 
find it covered with the red spider, an insect that I verily believe 
becomes a grandfather in an hour, so rapidly does it increase. But 
what are these eggs ? what enemy or friend to the florist will they 
reveal ? Ah, there, you are asking for more than we bargained to 
tell. We are florists, not entomologists ; but no doubt that, in the 
number of our readers, there is “ one of that gift,*^ who will, at a 
future time, help us to the information we both require, and shall 
be thankful for.—What did you pay for your glass } Twelve shil¬ 
lings. Well, it will last you a life, with common care ; and I am sure 
you will now agree with me, that no gardener, amateur or profes¬ 
sional, ought to be without one. 
Good Bye. 
