CHAPTER VI. 



INDIRECT INJURIES TO MANKIND FROM BUTTERFLIES. 



IT has been the will of Providence to place around 

 man, in this sublunary world, many animals, which 

 we cannot suppose to have been formed for his good. 

 Among these is a host of insects, which lay waste 

 the most valuable of our culinary vegetables, and 

 others direct their ravages to the fairest and most 

 delightful of our flowers. 



In dry summers, the Caterpillar of the common 

 Cabbage Butterfly often proves destructive to whole 

 gardens, consuming every thing which is green ; to 

 prevent which, no effectual means have been devised. 

 They feed indiscriminately on the leaves of turnips, 

 cabbages, greens, and other plants. What vegetable 

 can be more agreeable and wholesome than brocoli ? 

 and how often have we seen its foliage ravaged, in 

 the autumn, by numerous hordes of the caterpillar of 

 the Cabbage Butterfly! 



