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THE CORBIN GAME PARK. 
year and many eels and other varieties of cannibalistic fish destroyed, 
and now the ponds and streams are all stocked with trout. 
While in London, two years since, Mr. Corbin purchased 20,000 haw- 
thorn trees. 
them out. 
ing. Similarly, it is not primarily intended for scientific research into 
the habits, breeding, 
Fig. 1.—View of Buffalo, in the CorBIN Game Park. 
Four thousand of these have been planted this spring. 
They are for the pur- 
pose of forming a hedge 
strong enough to pre- 
vent the buffalo and 
other large animals from 
getting out. This tree, 
of which there are two 
varieties, the white and 
black, is used very ex- 
tensively for inclosing 
the game parks of Eng- 
land and France. It 
grows from 8 to 10 feet 
in height, and is the 
toughest and strongest 
tree that can be found, 
making, with its inter- 
locking and _— elastie 
branches, a hedge that 
would resist a battering 
ram. The trees are 
being planted inside the 
big fehtee of barbed and 
woven wire, and will 
eventually take its place 
when the latter becomes 
weakened through rust 
and exposure. 
There will be no hunt- 
ing in the park at pres- 
ent, though in future 
years, when the animals 
have multiplied beyond 
the resources of their do- 
main, it is possible that 
Mr. Corbin may adopt 
this means of thinning 
Tt i is Galea to say that the park is not designed for hunt- 
etc., of the various animals, though it is safe to 
say that it would yield rich returns in this direction. 
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