INFESTING GARDEN VEGETABLES. 
THE CABBAGE. 
affecting the leaves. 
EatiDg holes in the outer leaves late in autumn ; a small cylindrical pale green 
worm, wriggling briskly when disturbed, and letting itself down by a thread. 
The Cabbage Moth. Cerostoma Brassicella. 
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One of the most important culinary vegetables which we culti¬ 
vate, the cabbage, is in Europe subject to the attacks of quite a 
number of caterpillars and moths, some of which 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 noticed — 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 Crucifera, 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 
