THE TERRARIUM 
r¢ ANY little creatures brought in from 
the fields may find a happy home 
in the terrarium which is a box, 
with its sides of glass or netting, 
that is fitted in various ways to be 
the home of its many inmates. 
Miss Alice I. Kent has givena 
most charming description of life 
in a terrarium, which was published 
in Nature-Study Quarterly No. 8, 
of the Cornell University Teachers’ 
Leaflets, and permission has been 
| obtained to republish it in this 
book of pets for the benefit of many children. 
“Here is a fragment of the drama, as written in one 
terrarium. 
This terrarium was made from an old berry crate. 
When the children saw it first, last fall, this is what it 
looked like: a large rectangular box, grass-green in 
color, thirty-nine inches long, eighteen inches wide 
and fifteen inches high. The long sides were of 
glass, the short sides and top of green-wire netting. 
The top could be removed like the lid of a box. It 
stood upon a pedestal-table provided with castors. 
In the bottom of the terrarium were three inches of 
rich soil, covered with the delicate green of sprouting 
grass seed. In one corner was a mossy nook, and in 
another a mass of thistles and clover. At one end, 
a small cabbage was planted and at the other lay 
several sprays of glossy pin-oak. Suspended from 
the top, was a large spray of purple thistles. 
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