Here are a few connected closely with the homely cabbage, as given by a noted helminthologist under the head of "Cut-worms": "Granulated," "shagreened," "white," "marked," "greasy," "glassy," "speckled," "variegated," "wavy," "striped," "harlequin," "imbricated," "tarnished." The "snout beetle" is also a deadly foe.
To realize this horror, this worse than Pharaoh plague, you must either try a season of farming or peruse octavo volumes on Insects injurious to Vegetation, fully illustrated.
In those you may gain a faint idea of the "skippers," "stingers," "soothsayers," "walking sticks or specters," "saw flies and slugs," "boring caterpillars," "horn-tailed wood wasps," etc., etc., etc., etc., etc .-- a never-ending list.

The average absolute loss of the farmers of this country from such pests is fully one million dollars per annum.
Gail Hamilton said of her squashes: "They appeared above-ground, large-lobed and vigorous.

Large and vigorous appeared the bugs, all gleaming in green and gold, like the wolf on the fold, and stopped up all the stomata and ate up all the parenchyma, till my squash-leaves looked as if they had grown for the sole purpose of illustrating net-veined organizations.

A universal bug does not indicate a special want of skill in any one." Not liking to crush the bug between thumb and finger as advised, she tried drowning them.

She says: "The moment they touched the water they all spread unseen wings and flew away.