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THE AQUARIUM, JANUARY, 1894. 



Queries. 



We cheerfully answer at once all 

 queries made in regard to Aquariums 

 or Window Gardening if return postage 

 is enclosed. 



If you know yourself to be in arrears 

 with your subscription to The Aqua- 

 rium, kindly remit. Two cents postage 

 stamps are taken in payment. 



Mr. J. B. — The glass sides of an aqua- 

 rium should never fit tight in the frame. 

 On the size of yours, seventeen by 

 twenty-eight inches, allow one-fourth 

 inch on each end for expansion. In an 

 iron frame of the above size the cement 

 should be allowed to set for about two 

 weeks before the water is put in. An 

 aquarium must always be set on a per- 

 fect level, so the pressure may be even 

 on each point. In setting in a glass in 

 an iron aquarium, plenty of cement 

 should be used as a bed, to leave the 

 glass as much as possible independent 

 of the frame. 



Miss Serena. — Linden. The Japan- 

 ese dwarf bamboo, Baniboosa nietaca, 

 is well adapted for house culture. If 

 you wish to make a house plant out of 

 it, you should take up a clump of roots 

 in the spring and plant this in a small 

 tub, a butter tub, for instance. Keep 

 it in a partly shaded position out of 

 doors and water it well during the 

 summer. Before the first frost sets in 

 it should be removed to the house. 



Mrs. A. A. — If the air in your sitting 

 room is so dry that it becomes necessary 

 sometimes to water your plants twice a 



day, you should set each flower pot into 

 an other one, two sizes larger, and fill up 

 the space between them with damp 

 moss or sawdust. Or you may also put 

 all the plants with their pots into a 

 window box, filling in the space between 

 the pots as above directed. 



Miss L. K. — The most satisfactory 

 flowering house plant that we know of 

 is the Begonia semperflorens rubrum. 

 The foliage of this plant is brilliant 

 green and shiny and the shape and 

 habit of the plant pleasing to the eye. 

 You can count on its being in bloom 

 ten months out of twelve. The crimson 

 colored flowers appear with each new 

 sprout and often the plant has as many 

 flowers as it has leaves. Its season of 

 rest is during the hot summer months. 



A sheet of water, no matter of what 

 size, that can be emptied or filled at 

 will, is called a pond ; while one not 

 under control in this respect is called, 

 according to its size, a pool or lake. 



A keeper at the London Zoological 

 Gardens was employed on account of 

 his supposed fondness for animals. He 

 was soon found to be disliked by the 

 animals, who exhibited their aversion in 

 many ways. It was suspected that 

 while outwardly treating them with 

 kindness he must secretly hurt or annoy 

 them. He denied having done any- 

 thing of the sort, and his general man- 

 ner seemed to bear out his protesta- 

 tions. A watch was set upon him, with 

 a curious result. It appeared that he 

 never spoke to the animals, and for 

 that reason alone his presence was in- 

 tolerable to them. 



Back numbers of The Aquarium 

 are twenty- five cents each. For sale at 

 this office. 



