, INFESTING GARDEN JEGETABLES. 



THE CABBAGE. 



AFFECTING THE LEAVES. 



Eating holes in the outer leaves late in autumn; a small cylindrical pale grefitl 

 wonu, wriggling briskly when disturbed, and letting itself downby.a thread. 



'The Cabeaqe Moth. Cerostoma Brassicella. 



One of the most important culinary vegetables whicli we culti- 

 vate, the cabbage, is in Europe subject to the attacks of quite a 

 number of caterpillars and moths, some of whi«h prey voraciously 

 upon it. In our own country this vegetable probably has as 

 many of these enemies as abroad ; but so little attention has been 

 bestowed upon our noxious insects, that only two of these have as 

 yet been publicly itoticed — the cut worm, which is everywhere 

 such a grievous, pest, and the caterpillar of our white butterfly, 

 which, however, subsisting upon mustard, turnip, and most other 

 plants of the extensive order Cruciferce, seldom invades cabbages 

 in such numbers as to injure them. But I come to speak of 

 another worm, a moth, which makes greater havoc upon the 

 leaves of the cabbage than any insect which has yet been noticed 

 at home or abroad. And although it has not yet been observed 

 -within the confines of our own State I entertain no doubt that it 

 exists here, and that it will at times become multiplied in par- 

 licular localities, to the same extent that it has been in one of our 

 sister States the past season. 



In the neighborhood of Ottawa, Illinois, in October last, I ob- 

 served the cabbage leaves in the gardens perforated with nume- 

 rous holes of variable size and irregular form, by a small green 

 worm. Some gardens were so much infested that all the outer 



