As a general rule, the rose, mock-orange, many spiraeas, magnolia glauca, and many other things, have their flowers utterly ruined by the rose beetle, entomologi-cally known as Macrodactylus sub-spinosa, in gardens near Philadelphia. This year they were all in bloom and over before this pest appeared, the flowering season of trees and shrubs being about two weeks earlier than usual. The insect was not forwarded with the season as the plants were. They put in their appearance about the 12th of June, but were not troublesome till about the 15 th.