INSECTS INJURIOUS TO THE ROSE, 
THE ROSE-SLUG. 
(Selandria Rosce , Harris.) 
Order of HYMEHOPTERA. Family of Tenthredinidjo. 
Harris’s Treatise, p. 525. 
Few things are more distressing to a person of taste and refine¬ 
ment than the blasted and rained aspect which the rose bashes, 
almost everywhere, have, for many years past, presented. In 
traveling through various parts of the State, in the course ot the 
past summer, I have seen many gardens upon which much labor 
and money had been expended, rendered unsightly by the lifeless 
skeletons of these queenly plants, which should have been their 
ornament and pride. Those who suffer most from this sad spec¬ 
tacle are the women, who being naturally more refined than men, 
are, in the same proportion, greater lover ot flowers. Now, it by 
anything that I can say, I can put the fair women of the land in 
the way to restore their lost darlings to their pristine life and 
loveliness, I have no doubt that they would unhesitatingly con¬ 
clude that the office of State Entomologist is a great institution, 
and I should not be much surprised if they should combine to pay 
the salary of the incumbent, as people sometimes raise monuments 
to the great and the good, by the universal payment of penny 
contributions. 
Well, I believe all this can be done—I mean the roses saved, 
not the monument built—at a very trifling expense, and without 
any great amount of labor, by the general putting in practice ot 
knowledge which has long been had by the few, and in reiterating 
which I therefore lay no claim to originality. All the merit I can 
assume is in explaining a little more fully than our writers have 
