74 COLLECTIONS AND HE COLLECTIONS. 
narrow slips of dark green paper wherever they may require it, and 
the descriptions should be written in the following manner : 
No. 67, 
CAPPARIS ZEYLAN1CA 
STOVE EVERGREEN SHRUB, 
C E Y L O N, 1 8 1 9. WHITE. 
Take care always to keep the collection very close, and a little 
pressed, without which the specimens, however dry they may be, 
will attract the humidity of the air, and again get out of form. It 
must also be kept in the driest part of the house, and rather on the 
first than the ground floor. 
The press should be composed of two mahogany boards, eighteen 
inches square and one thick, and a screw, which performs the pres¬ 
sure on the top of the upper board where there is a small piece of 
iron let in to keep the screw from making any indenture. 
In answer to M. K. Vol. 2, page 29, I beg to say that the speci¬ 
mens may be laid in as natural a manner as possible, but still if the 
leaves are not straight, and the petals laid out regularly, how can the 
generic or specific distinctions be ascertained, or the class and order 
be distinguished P I therefore hold good what I have stated above, 
and also what appeared in the Horticultural Register, Vol 1, page 
742. 
ARTICLE X. 
COLLECTIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS. 
A Curious Horticultural Anecdote. —When Sir Francis 
Carew had rebuilt his mansion house at Beddington, in Surrey, he 
planted the gardens with choice fruit trees. Here he was twice visit¬ 
ed by Queen Elizabeth ; and Sir Hugh Platt, in his garden of Eden, 
tells a curious anecdote relating to one of these visits. “ I conclude,” 
says he, “ with a conceit of that delicate knight, Sir Francis Carew, 
who, for his better accomplishment of his Royal entertainment of our 
late Queen Elizabeth, led her Majesty to a cherry tree, whose fruit 
he had of purpose kept back from ripening at least one month after 
all cherries had taken their farewell of England. This secret he 
performed by straining a tent, or cover of canvas over the whole tree, 
and wetting it over with a scoop, now and then, as the heat of the 
weather required; and so, by withholding the sun-beams from re¬ 
flecting upon the berries, they grew both great and were very long, 
