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water will rise 230 feet in height. Around that, 
will be four fountains, each 120 feet in height; 
and these again will be surrounded by 16 others, 
each 72 in height. Nor is this all; there are 
other groups as grand, besides multitudes of 
smaller decorations of a similar character, which 
in themselves will doubtless be worthy of Sir 
Joseph Paxton’s experience in such matters. 
On the south-east side of the great fountainjust 
described, will be a lake covering 5 acres ofground. 
Other ornamental water will chiefly consist of two 
strips on either side of the principal walk, just 
below the first fountain. These are to be each 
450 feet in length, and will be fashioned into cas- 
cades, which will fall into broader pieces of water 
on the right and left of the walk, and lying at 
right angles to it, each 1,000 feet long. These two 
latter pieces will each contain fountains of great 
power and beauty ; so that there will certainly be 
no want of decorations of this kind, which tend so 
much to set off pleasure-grounds to advantage. 
The towers from which the fall for the fountains 
is to be obtained are nearly erected. They stand 
at each end of the building, which they equal in 
height ; and the water is to be forced up them by 
means of steam-power from a reservoir, which 
covers more than 2 acres of ground and is 12 feet 
deep. It will thus be seen that the gardening 
operations connected with this great undertaking 
are yet very far from being finished ; and that the 
directors have much yet to do before all that we 
have mentioned shall have been completed. 
Beyond the dress ground will be the open park ; 
the Anerley side of which, where there is a con- 
siderable extent of thicket, will probably be con- 
verted into a kind of gipsy-ground, by forming 
walks through the wood; but not otherwise 
materially altering its natural character.. This 
will afford an agreeable and cool retreat from the 
heat of a summer’s sun. 
THE ARTIFICIAL PRODUCTION OF FISH. 
IT Is A FACT, now well established both in 
France and England, that Fis can, by arti- 
ficial means, be reared in any quantity, and 
with the certainty of success. 
We have, ona number of occasions, drawn 
attention to the process, and expressed the 
hope that it would be prosecuted with un- 
remitting exertions. Our hopes have been 
realised. 
To speak of experiments in our own 
country, we may refer to the recent investi- 
gations of Mr. Samuel Gurney, Jun., of 
Carshalton. That gentleman has fur some 
years occupied himself in experimenting, 
early and late, with the artificial breeding of 
fish ; and for this purpose he has constructed 
small lateral rivulets, in which the eggs of 
the trout, when collected, are deposited, and 
kept till they are hatched, and the young fish 
have attained such a size as experience has 
shown to be proper and safe for them to be 
exposed in the ordinary stream. (He has, be 
it said, a considerable stream of the purest 
water, and abounding with trout, passing 
through his grounds.) 
Our contemporary, the ‘‘ Gardeners’ 
Journal,’ remarks, in a recent number— 
“We have seen these operations, and can 
confirm, from observation, what we have been 
told by the persons who make it their busi- 
ness to attend to them—that it would be 
difficult to set a limit to the myriads of trout 
which might be raised in this manner; and 
no doubt other kinds of fish may be managed 
in the same way.” There can be no doubt 
whatever about this, as the ‘ principle” 
holds good. And as to causing an excess in 
the number of fish, ¢hzs can be regulated at 
any time, and very easily. 
It is well known to persons who have paid 
any attention to this branch of natural his- 
tory, that ninety-nine in every hundred eggs 
of the trout are destroyed by the adult trout 
themselves, by water-fowl, and the different 
kinds of fish which may happen to be in the 
water—all which greedily devour the spawn 
of one another. Nature seems to have wisely 
provided this check to prevent undue 
increase, from the great fecundity of this 
class of animals; hence the field which is 
open to all but illimitable increase by arti- 
ficial means, whenever this may be deemed 
desirable. 
The investigation of this question is, very 
properly, deemed important enough to have 
led to the holding of a recent meeting in 
Scotland, of the owners of some of the great 
fisheries there ; in order to devise means by 
which to take advantage of the discovery in 
question. In France the subject is looked 
upon as deserving the countenance and 
support of the Government, as will be seen 
from the extracts below, which we make from 
a paper read by M. Coste, before the 
Academy of Sciences of Paris, on the 7th 
of February last. 
Such being now established facts, a very 
large number of the country mansions of the 
nobility and gentry of the United Kingdom, 
the parks and pleasure-grounds of which are 
bounded or intersected by rivers and lakes, 
present opportunities more or less favorable 
to the introduction of this new branch of 
‘rural economy. New ideas and new dis- 
coveries have, in times gone by, had to 
struggle against the all-but impregnable walls 
of prejudice. We venture to hope that 
horticulturists, at least, will lend their aid 
to further and extend the necessary know- 
ledge by which this discovery may not only 
add to the luxuries of isolated country 
mansions, but give additional value to the 
streams and rivulets which greatly abound in 
remote parts of the country—especially 
Scotland and Ireland, by rendering these 
streams productive of human food. 
The following extracts will convey some 
idea of the plan pursued :— 
All the springs descending from the mountains 

