Show THE CORAL POLYP they kulild at the unto of one inch in six months the coral animal can be tamed I 1 believe 1 am the birst person in the world who ever accomplished the result anys gcorge L bancroft here is a piece I 1 t aund on a florida reef I 1 was anxious to learn how fast the coral grows 0 o placed it in water where I 1 could visit it every week and note the change ahen I 1 first visited the specimen the would dart into their cells after several visits they became so hold as to remain outside and finally our acquaintance ripened until they would ilo their work while I 1 remained a watcher I 1 have stood by the hour watching the little fellows at work they taught me that the claim of scientific men that the coral docs not grow more than one inch in one hundred years is the sheerest she erest nonsense my pets an inch in six months bow do they work well that is a rather difficult question to answer the little animal is a sack eliat is his sh is the biggest part of him lie is a compound animal and increases by germination young polyps springing from the original polyp the upper surface is arrayed with tentacles and the body is separated by a number of partitions that extend from the stomach to the outer skin between walls the carbonate of lime is deposited |