RIVER GARDENS, ETC. 



most nutritious and delicious esculent, and would 

 be likely to act upon that conviction. 



I do not dwell at greater length on the subject of 

 Reptiles for the Aquarium, as I am aware that 

 deeply rooted prejudices will cause many to exclude 

 them altogether, restricting their selection of in- 

 mates for their tanks to plants and fishes only, to 

 the exclusion even of aquatic insects, the interesting 

 metamorphoses of which will form the subject of 

 the next chapter. 



