JARDTN D'ACCLIMATATION, PARIS 15 



In eighteen days a fowl will go up to more than double 

 its weight, and will be perhaps a pound more at the 

 finish. M. Martin, the inventor of this ingenious 

 system, which allows a man by himself to cram 400 

 fowls in an hour, had already used it in the department 

 of Allier, at Cusset, near Vichy, and his products, under 

 the name of ' Phoenix fowls,' have acquired notoriety. 

 He then asked the Society of the Jardin d'Acclimata- 

 tion to allow him to construct at his own expense in 

 the Garden a model of his fattening establishment, 

 which he started at his own risk. Visitors can now 

 procure at this establishment fat fowls all ready for 

 the table. 



Following on the right a large circular walk, you 

 find, after the fattening establishment, sheds where 

 all kinds of rural and agricultural objects are shown. 

 Here the public can see buildings of every sort applic- 

 able to the farm : Swiss cottages made of cut wood, 

 tents, wire-lattices, aviaries, chairs, tables, and garden- 

 seats, elevators, garden-tools, guns and fishing tackle, 

 porcelain and terra-cotta vases — in short, everything 

 which tends to ornament parks and gardens, or to the 

 culture of plants, or the raising of stock. On leaving 

 the exhibition sheds, the first building which catches 

 the eye is the monkey house, in front of the enclosure 

 for storks and river-birds ; then you come on the right 

 to the pheasantry, the parrot aviary being attached to 

 a little pheasantry, and on the other side of the way 

 are the ostrich and large-bird enclosures. The large 

 pheasantry follows these, then the upper pheasantry, 

 and next the poultry house, an immense circular 

 monolith building in Coignet mortar, in which there 



