The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 361
, for keeping under wood-lice, and other insects, and slugs and worms. The common frog is en-couraged for the same purpose.Testudo graeca L., the Greek, or common, tortoise, (^g. 48.) This speciesabounds in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean, especially inGreece, where it is much used as… … 340 Gardeti of Catwnmills Cottage. which they are matured. Tortoises are _ of a most extraordinary longevity; and _ • ,••? ■_ ^,- , : j^ one was ascertained to have lived in the >J*i- ^••r. • \f, gardens of Lambeth to the age of 120 ^■» C^T ^-/(r*?! •Tlyears. They answer, in some measure,…
