A lady of Madison, New Jersey, writes : "Will you be kind enough to give in the magazine an accurate description of the rose-bug mentioned by Mr. Henderson on p. 170 of the June number? Is it the same described by Parkman's ' Book of Roses,' p. 37 ? I have often heard here of the damage done in greenhouses by the rose-bugs, but I have never found two gardeners who agreed in describing it".

[The rose-bug or beetle referred to is not the " rose bug " so common in gardens, that eats the flowers of mock oranges, roses and everything else that comes in its way, which is the one referred to by Parkman; but a newly discovered pest of the rose grower under glass. It was first named Aramigus Fulleri by Dr. Horn in 1876, and is described and figured and a full account of its behaviour given by Prof. Riley at page 310 of Gardeners' Monthly for 1879. - Ed. G. M].