ELEVEN IMPORTANT WILD-DUCK POODS. 
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germinate is unknown, but it is certain, so far as utility as duel; food 
in concerned, thai they keep in perfect condition far into the succeed- 
ing spring. 
DISTRIBUTION. 
Swamp privet is native from centra] Illinois and Tennessee, near 
Nashville, south to Texas and Florida (see fig. 12). 
PROPAGATION. 
Fruits of swamp privet fully ripen upon the tree. The seeds, 
being protected by a fibrous cover and the pulp of the berry, undoubt- 
edly will stand shipment for ordinary distances. Prompt handling 
Fig. 11.— Seedlings of swamp privet. 
is advisable, however, and the usual precautions against fermentation 
should be taken. The seeds should be sown in well-watered beds 
and the young plants grown to some size before setting out. Col- 
lected young plants and the offshoots produced by the rooting of the 
tips of branches of older ones may be handled like those of the water 
elm. 
EEL-GRASS. 
VALUE AS DUCK FOOD. 
Few who have written of the habits of sea brant have failed to 
mention its fondness for eel-grass. The relation between this spe- 
cies of bird and plant seems to be as close as, if not closer than, 
that existing between the noted fresh-water pair, the canvasback 
