THE FARM AND GARDEN. 2 1 



muslin or mosquito netting, are all that are required to 

 make this useful implement. The titmouse is said to 

 eat the larvae, and should therefore be protected and 

 encouraged. 



[The descriptions of this and the preceding species are 

 condensed from an article by Oh as. S. Minot in " Ameri- 

 can Entomologist."] 



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THE SOUTHEKN CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. 



(Pieris Protodice, Bo^^ 



This species, though scarce in the more Northern 

 States, abounds in many of the Southern States, where it 

 takes the place of the two species just described. It often 



Fig. 20. SOUTHERN CABBAGE BUTTERFLY (Pieris Protodice). 

 a, Larva; b. Chrysalis. 



proves exceedingly injurious, and we learn from a Mis- 

 sissippi journal that " there were last year thousands of 

 dollars' worth of cabbages devastated and ruined by 

 worms in the neighborhood of Corinth." We are fur- 

 thermore told, that cabbages could not, in consequence, 

 be had there even at ten cents per head. The "worm " 

 referred to, was doubtless the species under considera- 

 tion. It abounds in many parts of Missouri, and especi- 

 ally in the truck gardens around large cities, where it 

 proves quite destructive to the cabbages. 



The larva (fig. 20, a), may be summarily described as 



