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the fore or upper wings, and a spot on the inner margin. 
The Small White (Pieris rapa, see Fig. 311) bas two 
broods in the year, the first batch about April, and the 
second in July. The eggs are always placed on the upper 
side of the leaf, and are hatched in from ten to thirteen 
days, the caterpillars becoming full grown in about three 
weeks after emerging. The colour of the caterpillar is 
dark green, with a fine line of yellow, and a row of yellow 
spots down the sides The chrysalis is attached by the 
tail and a band of silk to the place selected by the cater- 
pillar, and varies greatly in colour, although generally it is 
of a whitish-brown. 
Cabbage Moth (Mamestra brassice). Newman, in his 
“ British Moths,” thus describes the Cabbage Moth: “ The 
~ antenne are rather long and slender, and scarcely ciliated 
in either sex ; the forewings are dark, smoky, grey brown, 
mottled and marbled with confused markings, both darker 
and paler ; the orbicular spot is inconspicuous, but devidedly 
to be traced; the reniform stigma is delicately outlined with 
white or whitish-grey, and has a pale anterior dise, in which 
; the hind wings 
white dots on each of their segments. On being disturbed, 
they roll themselves into a tight ring, and so remain until 
they suppose that danger is over. They descend into the 
reat ie. Wia epeei : 
ime over the Haat, bat ie mast ee 7 s throwing 
frequently applied. 
CABBAGE FLY (Anthomyia brassicæ). Among the 
legless, tapering to the head, and blunt at the tail, which 
short teeth on the lower margin, and two brown 
tubercles in the middle. When full grown, they are about 
tin. long. They then leave the plants, and turn, in the 
earth, to pupæ, with a few black spots at the head, and 
short teeth at the tail, inside which the flies form, and 
emerge in about a or three weeks. The fy is 
recommended : Eg | 
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Cabbage Caterpillars—continued. Cabbage Fly—continued. ‘ 
from the male in having two large black spots on each of | these maggots may be easily detected by the and 
change of colour of the leaves. The infested plants 
be immediately removed and destroyed. The following 
remedy will be found beneficial: 
Lime. Hot lime should be soaked in water for abont 
twenty-four hours. When clear, the infested Cabbages 
should be well washed with the liquid. Superphosphate 
of lime may also be applied with advantage. 
CABBAGE GALL WEEVIL (Cewlorriynchue pulei» 
collis). This is a pretty little beetle, about three-quarters 
of a line or one line in length. Its colour is dark, but the 
insect is really of a coppery hue; on the thorax and head 
are rather large depressions; the wing-casea vary in colonr 
from green to greenish-blue, or even black, and along the 
entire length of the elytra are parallel lines or holes, as 
may be seen with the aid of an ordinary lena. 
which causes much damage to plants of the Brassica family, 
is, in some places, very difficult to eradicate. It ia also 
very destructive to other crops, and, therefore, any 
effectual remedy is valuable. The following methods may 
be recommended : 
Oarbolic Acid. Mix loz. Calvert's No. 5 carbolic acid 
with two gallons of soapends, and add sufficient loam or 
See ee the roots of the whole of 
and put the plants 
will not be necessary. 
Parafin, or Coal Oil. This, applied in the same manner 
as recommended for Carbolic Acid, is also very good. 
and Nitrate of Boda. 
is dug, and in wet weather, about a month 
plants are put out, has been found very benoficial; but, 
although preventatives, they do not totally clear the erop 
from insects for the season. 
CABOMBA (the native name in Guiana). 
Nympheacee. Sup. Ord. Cabomber. | nd ve 
interesting aquatics. They thrive well in a cistern 
deep, with 2in. of loam in the bottom, for 
root in, then filled up with water, and placed in a ¥ 
part of the greenhouse during summer, being allowed a 
rest in a cool part of the stove in winter. Propagation 
