. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . ILATi: i,xxix Illlll.! HUM IClll .1 I ililiil >clniliucl:i !•( cten ^tMius, PELECYPODS 433 time a Roman named Sergius Grata first cultivated oysters ;. The acuteness of the gastronomic sense of a Romanepicure is thus described by Juvenal: He could tell At the first mouthful it his oysters fedOn the Rut uphill or the Luerine bedOr at Circeii. The poet Gays opinion is expressed thus; The mail had sure a palate coverd oerWith brass or steel, that on the rocky sh
. The sea-beach at ebb-tide : a guide to the study of the seaweeds and the lower animal life found between tidemarks . ILATi: i,xxix Illlll.! HUM IClll .1 I ililiil >clniliucl:i !•( cten ^tMius, PELECYPODS 433 time a Roman named Sergius Grata first cultivated oysters ;. The acuteness of the gastronomic sense of a Romanepicure is thus described by Juvenal: He could tell At the first mouthful it his oysters fedOn the Rut uphill or the Luerine bedOr at Circeii. The poet Gays opinion is expressed thus; The mail had sure a palate coverd oerWith brass or steel, that on the rocky shoreFirst broke the oozy oysters pearly coat,And riskM the living morsel down his throat. The methods employed in oyster-farming resemble those ofagriculture, in that the bed is prepared, seed is sown, superfluousand foreign growths are weeded out, enemies are driven off, andthe crop is harvested at stated seasons. The oyster is ovovivipa-rous; that is, it retains its eggs until they are partly are held in the gills and mantle folds until the time ofspawning, which begins in May and lasts through t
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