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putting soil in the bottom of the tank. 

 Poots and young plants should not be 

 placed in water more than a foot deep 

 until they have taken a good start to 

 grow. Nothing should be planted in 

 new tanks while the water is strong of 

 the cement. Protection during winter, 

 to keep the plaster from freezing and 

 falling off, may be done in several 

 ways, optional with the owner, but the 

 best plan is to cover the tank over with 

 glass. This, of course, is not essential, 

 but with the assistance of a large lamp 

 or small oil stove, one is well repaid by 

 having flowers all winter. 



To grow in ponds or streams. — Plant 

 ■as soon as the danger of frost is over, 

 where the water is a foot deep, lay the 

 roots horizontally, and cover them 

 with two or three inches of soil. If 

 the pond is subject to overflows, it is 

 best to plant all in boxes, so that they 

 €an be moved into shallow water until 

 the plants become established, then 

 they will care for themselves. Water 

 Lilies will not thrive in soil where rock 

 or sand is too abundant. — From Geo. 

 B. Moulder's Catalogue. 



AMERICAN BLACK BASS AND 

 SUNFISH IN FINLAND. 



We read in the " Deutsche Fischerei 

 Zeitung " that our famous black bass, 

 both species, have been successfully 

 shipped to the cold and distant northern 

 country, Finland. We are greatly in- 

 terested in the result. Finland is 

 abundantly supplied with exceedingly 

 fine flavored fish and fish-culture is 

 well understood there. In its native 

 home, the Ohio valley and the lower 

 Lake region, the black bass is exposed 

 to long and rather warm summers ; 

 in Finland the climate is just the re- 

 verse. 



Von dem Borne's establishment (see 

 October, 1894, issue of the Aquarium), 

 supplied the fish mentioned above from 

 its ponds. Nine hundred and fifty, one 

 summer's crop of the big-mouthed 

 species or Oswego bass (M. Salmoides), 

 comprised the first shipment, and a 

 second contained two hundred of the 

 small-mouth or Moss bass (M. Dolomiei) 

 of same age. These fish were shipped 

 to Helsingfors. Of the big-mouths, 

 which were shipped in the middle of 

 October, only one single fish was lost. 

 The trip lasting nine days, this cer- 

 tainly was an excellent result. The 

 second shipment bearing the small- 

 mouths was not so successful. Out of 

 the two hundred and ten fish shipped 

 one hundred and thirty-two fish died 

 on the way. The remarkable differ- 

 ence in the result of the two shipments 

 is found in the mistake made in filling 

 the shipping cans too full of water, 

 which prevented the water being aera- 

 ted by its motion (sjjlas/tijiq against the 

 shoulders of the shipping cans.) (See 

 " The Goldfish and Its Culture," p. 78; 

 German Edition, p. 75.) The proof of 

 this was found in tlie fact that in one 

 can all the fish were lost; in another, of 

 seventy-three, fifty-nine were dead ; 

 and in the third, in which the projaer 

 space had been left, not one fish was 

 lost. Each can contained the same 

 number of fish when they started. 



Eight American pumpkin seed sun- 

 fish were also sent in a separate can ; of 

 these two died during the trip. 



"Folks that live in the city can't 

 write po'try — not the real, gejiuine arti- 

 cle. To write po'try, as I figure it, the 

 heart must hev somethin' to feed on ; 

 you can't get that somethin' v/har there 

 ain't trees 'nd grass 'nd birds 'nd 

 flowers." — Ftif/ene Field. 



