OCEAN GARDENS, ETC. 



The best time for making collections at the sea- 

 side is a day or two after the full moon, when the 

 tide recedes to its greatest extent, and parts of the 

 shore become exposed, where some of the finest 

 species groAV, which cannot be conveniently ap- 

 proached at any other time. It must be borne in 

 ^mind, also, that few of the floating pieces will 

 grow, however fresh and seemingly washed off with 

 their root. Certain success is only to be secured by 

 chiselling off a portion of the substance on which 

 the weed is growing — thus transplanting it with its 

 own soil, as it were, about its roots, into the ocean 

 garden of the Aquarium. 



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