CHAPTER VI. 
INDIRECT INJURIES TO MANKIND FROM BUTTERFLIES. 
Ir has been the will of Providence to place around 
man, in this sublunary world, many animals, which 
we shortsighted mortals 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 ! 
The larve of the Papilio rape are often found 
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