IN LEAFY JUNE. 1ST 



piration of which time they have gorged sufficient 

 raw cabbage to attain a length of one and a half 

 inches. Then they leave the garden and resort to 

 the rocks or the fence, and spin thereon a tuft of silk 

 in which they place their hind feet ; a loop is then 

 spun in which they hang by the neck. After eleven 

 or twelve days have elapsed the 

 green worm has become a white 

 butterfly, ready to begin on 

 the cabbage patch again ! I 

 never see a white butter- 

 fly without a picture 

 arising in my mind 

 of a certain indig- 

 nant farmer, who 

 never missed an oppor- 

 tunity of flapping at 

 one with his old gray Papilio turnus. 



felt hat, which the butterfly always managed to evade. 

 One of our largest and most beautiful butterflies 

 is the pale corn-yellow and rusty black one (the up- 

 per parts of the wings are marked with four descend- 

 ing black bars), with swallow-tailed wings, called the 

 tiger swallowtail (Papilio turnus)* This hand- 

 some creature frequently measures four and a half 



* Jasoniades glaucus, Scudder. 



