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FOOD FOR TENCH AND GOLD-FISH TOESK. 



Gillbanlvs, who was a great botanist, writes me : " The 

 natural food both of cai'XD and tench is the hirvas of 

 insects, small worms, and the soft parts of yarious 

 aquatic plants." When I was at Cambridge, the men 

 who went wildfowl-shootin": with me called some of 

 the weed that abounded thereabouts " tench weed." It 

 was one of the Potamageton tribe, on the broad leaves 

 of which tench deposit their eggs, which hatch out in a 

 very few days. 



As regards keeping common tench, golden tench, and 

 especially gold-fish, Mr. Gillbanks writes : " The water 

 in which they are placed cannot be too soft. I give my 

 gold fish rianuncalus aquatilis and Fianunciiliis hedcrecea 

 — the ivy-leaf sort. The small flowers of these are 

 very pretty, and they take up little room, as the foliage 

 and flowers are at the top, affording shade and harbour 

 for delicate moUusks such as Limneus ijereger, the 

 planorhis, the fresh-water limpet, which feed on cou- 

 fervae and keep the water clear." 



TORSK. 



Anacanthlni Tkoracici. GodidcB. 



The Torsk, or Tusk, is a northern fish, seldom found 

 much further south than the 68tli degree. It is only 



.TORSIC. 



occasionally caught in the Forth, but more frequently 

 in the Oriaiey Isles, and is plentiful among the Shet- 



