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Show Cultivated Spongss Sponges are now cultivated like P'ain. It is strange to think of beds f sponges cultivated under the sea. I'ut tiiis in no stranger, afler all, than hecU i f oyster.-:. The nir: l.i; is to cut up very line, tn-nlliiy. living sponges a sponge is t)ui:e as lively as an oyster iiito Seeds. These seeds, about halt an inch In diameter, are v. i i-d to blocks ol fciiicni. uu.il dioppc-d into the sulima- rine sponge bed. They mature in two years. Tiie best sponges those large, blond. line fellows, called bath spong; s --come from Florida. It takes' them ten years to grow to bath size. |