OF THE FARM AtfD GARDEN. 



county, Texas, and were printed in the " Practical En- 

 tomologist" (vol. I, p. 110). His remarks are to the 

 following effect: 



"The year before last they got into my garden, and 

 utterly destroyed my cabbage, radishes, mustard, seed 

 turnips, and every other cruciform plant. Last year I 

 did not set any of that order of plants in my garden. 

 But the present year, thinking they had probably left the 

 premises, I planted my garden with radishes, mustard, 

 and a variety of cabbages. By the first of April the mus- 

 tard and radishes were large enough for use, and I dis- 

 covered that the insect had commenced on them. I be- 

 gan picking them off 

 by hand and trampling 

 them under foot. By 

 that means I have pre- 

 served my four hundred 

 and thirty-four cab- 

 bages, but I have visit- 

 ed every one of them 

 daily now for four 

 months, finding on 

 them from thirty-five 

 to sixty fall-grown in- 

 sects every day, some 

 coupled and some in 

 the act of depositing 



their eggs. Although many have been hatched in my 

 garden the present season, I have suffered none to come 

 to maturity; and the daily supplies of grown insects that 

 I have been blessed with, are immigrants from some 

 other garden. 



"The perfect insect lives through the winter, and is 

 ready to deposit its eggs (fig. 26, c,) as early as the fifteenth 

 of March, and sooner, if it finds any cruciform plant large 

 enough. They set their eggs on end in two rows, cemented 



Fig. 36. HARLEQUIN CABBAGE-BEETLE 



(Strachia histrionicd). 

 a, Larva ; ft, Pupa ; c, Eggs ; d, Beetle. 



