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vegetable treasures of the deep. It would be supplied 
with fresh sea-water daily, and ensure success with- 
out dependence on the adjustment of those relations 
between the animal and the vegetable kingdoms by 
which the vital functions of both are permanently 
maintained, in places where sea-water cannot be 
had. These things have become quite systematised 
in marine establishments now. It is one of the 
‘pleasant pastimes of those who seek recreation and 
health by the sea-side, and who possess so much of 
a love of nature, as to notice these objects, to collect 
them in aquariums, and grouping them as we would 
do a posy of flowers, to watch their expansion into 
full bloom. Itis not all animal flowers that ‘are 
susceptible of being detached, but those that are, 
will repay the trouble and the watchfulness necessa- 
ry to obtain this gratification. To gaze on them 
clustering the rocks, and spreading their brilliant 
tints in the sunshine, mingling purple and pink, 
blue and yellow, with fringes of green, varied with 
crenated and runcinated edges, like so many assem- 
bled plants in blowth, and yet vanishing into mere 
masses like colourless funguses, when an attempt is 
made to touch them surprises as well as amuses. 
These are objects by their unusual or more properly 
speaking uncommon character, when we refer them 
to terrestrial experience, that give a stimulus of 
pleasure unequalled by anything else to valetudina- 
rian feelings, when the once-more-breathed air, and 
the refreshing earth and the sky inspire sensations of 
