OF THE FARM AND GARDEK. ^'J' 



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 Chas. S. Minot in " Ameri- 

 can Entomologist."] 



THE SOTTTHERN CABBAGE BUTTERFLY. 

 {Pieris Protodice, Boisd.) 



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 



rig. 80. — SOUTHEBN CABBAGE ETJTTEEPLT (Jteris I^otodke). 

 a. Larva ; b, Chryaalls. 



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 considers^ 

 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 



