OE, THE HOME-CULTURE OF FRESH-WATER PLANTS 



slowly, and it is said do not breed at all. They live 

 for a great length of time out of water if kept 

 moist with damp grass or moss, and are often 

 suspended in that way in the dairies in Holland, 

 and fed upon bread and milk, under which treat- 

 ment it is said they fatten very quickly, and the flesh 

 becomes exceedingly delicate. In ponds they feed 

 well on boiled potatoes, and have been known to 

 attain to three pounds in weight as early as their 

 sixth year. 



They attain, occasionally, a remarkable size even 

 in England, though not so great as in some parts of 

 the Continent. Mr. Ludbrooke, from his park at 

 Gatton, as we are told by Yarrell, presented Lord 

 Egremont with a brace that weighed thirty-five 

 pounds; while at the fishing of a larger piece of 

 water, on another estate, a Carp was found thirty 

 inches long, and weighing eighteen pounds. 



Aristotle calls the Carp wn-pivos, which Pliny 

 translates Cyprinus, the name by which the genus 

 is still known in scientific natural history. His 

 popular names have, however, for a long period 

 been Carpeno, Carpo, Karpfen, Carpe, or Carp. It 

 is said that the Carp was originally introduced 

 from Persia, and became distributed in Europe by 

 degrees. 



