I saw in No. 114 an article on sponges, in which you said that
sponges were cultivated in Europe. One day as I was passing through
Fulton Street I saw in a show case something labelled "cultivated
sponge." With your piece fresh in my memory, and having also a
great curiosity to see how it looked, I entered the store--a large
drug house near William Street--and inquired about it, and they
kindly told me that the sponge was raised at Cedar Key, Florida,
and that it was of seven months' growth; also that it had been cut
and planted without being taken out of the water. The sponge
measured seven inches in depth and eight inches across. Thinking
that some of your young readers would like to see such a curiosity,
I write this letter.