SEA-WEEDS. 



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in which both red and green sea-weeds were growing 

 and looking as bright as a garden parterre. To 

 bring these somewhat capricious plants up to this 

 pitch is well worth the trouble. In this way it is not 



Fig. 101. 



Callithamnion. 



impossible to have a marine garden of such lowly 

 organized " flowers of the sea," as they have been 

 somewhat sentimentally termed. The red sea-weeds 

 should be planted in the darker places, for they shun 

 the light more than the green and the olive-coloured, 

 most of which, on the contrary, seek it. The best 

 sea-weeds are the smallest. The student ought by 

 no means to attempt the larger wracks, as they give 



