OR, THE HOME-CULTURE OF FRESH-WATER PLANTS 
slowly, and it is said do not breed at all. They live 
for a great length of time out of water if kept 
moist with damp grass or moss, and are often 
suspended in that way in the dairies in Holland, 
and fed upon bread and milk, under which treat¬ 
ment it is said they fatten very quickly, and the flesh 
becomes exceedingly delicate. In ponds they feed 
well on boiled potatoes, and have been known to 
attain to three pounds in weight as early as their 
sixth year. 
They attain, occasionally, a remarkable size even 
in England, though not so great as in some parts of 
the Continent. Mr. Ludhrooke, from his park at 
Gatton, as we are told by Yarrell, presented Lord 
Egremont with a brace that weighed thirty-fiye 
pounds; while at the fishing of a larger piece of 
water, on another estate, a Carp was found thirty 
inches long, and weighing eighteen pounds. 
Aristotle calls the Carp Kvirpivos, which Pliny 
translates Cyprinus , the name by which the genus 
is still known in scientific natural history. His 
popular names have, however, for a long period 
been Carpeno , Carpo , Karp fen, Carpe , or Carp. It 
is said that the Carp was originally introduced 
from Persia, and became distributed in Europe by 
degrees. 
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