these trees, beside this road, that 

 the butterflies live all winter. 



They are uniformly of the 

 same species, and will readily 

 be recognized as the Monarch, 

 or Anosia plexippus. Very 

 striking are their wide reddish- 

 brown wings, with the broad 

 black borders and the two rows 

 of white spots along the outer 

 edges. During the months be- 

 tween mid-autumn and mid- 

 spring, countless numbers of 

 them flit all day about the flow- 

 ers of the gardens of the town, 

 but the air is so warm and but- 

 terflies seem such natural com- 

 plements of plants in bloom, 

 that at first a person does not 

 particularly notice them. After 

 a time, however, it is realized 



