152 FISH. 



the ancient llutupinum, were considered as the 

 best. They grow in beds at the bottom of the 

 sea, generally in bays, on a substance called 

 cuUch. On this they deposit their spawn, and when 

 full grown, they are dredged up. They are in 

 season, according to the vulgar account, in those 

 months which have the letter R in their name ; 

 that is, from September to April inclusive. A 

 green colour is artificially given to them in some 

 places, but, as this is unnatural and a disease, 

 the oysters are probably not so wholesome as 

 those that are white. 



A writer who signs herself " Anna Blackwell " 

 in ' Once a Week ' gives an account of " Pisci- 

 culture in France," and says, what the French 

 style " the planting and cultivation of the sea," 

 and the English, less ambitious in speech, would 

 be content to call " the artificial raising of fish," 

 is being carried on in France with a perseverance 

 and zest which promise to yield very valuable 

 results, and at no distant date. The various 

 operations of modern pisciculture due to the in- 

 ventive genius of the humble fisherman E-emy, 

 and zealously promoted by the labours of the in- 

 defatigable M. Jacques Coste, under the joint 



