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QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 
supplied with water, until the plant has done flowering, but in winter 
when in a dormant state, it should be kept rather dry than otherwise, 
R. Marnoch. 
Bretton Hall, Jan, 30 , 1834 . 
CsesARiAN Cale. —I am recommended to sow and plant out 
Caesarian Cale, as a good green food for cattle in winter. The out¬ 
side leaves are given to them, and there is a succession of them pro¬ 
duced. As there are various opinions on the subject, I should feel 
obliged by yours, or that of any of your subscribers, and what is the 
best time to sow and plant out, and at what distance they should be 
planted from each other, the best soil, &c. If I could get an answer 
in your next, I need not say it would be very desirable. 
J. M. Taylor. 
Rabbits and Hares.— I am obliged to your corrsspondent, 
“I. J. T,” for his communication, as to binding the stems of trees 
with Gorse, but I fear that it would be found a very tedious opera¬ 
tion in young plantations of any extent. Some time since, I tried 
the yet simple method of placing a few branches of short gorse on 
the ground, six or seven inches round the trees, and it was attended 
with success for a time, as long as the gorse retained its thorny rough¬ 
ness. Any further communication on this subject would be accep¬ 
table ; with reference more particularly to plantations of Forest Trees, 
Copse wood, and Nursery plants. J. F. 
The Nematus Capre;e. —Under the bead Miscellaneous Intel¬ 
ligence, in the last number of the Register, it is stated that Nematus 
Capreae is the name of the insect alluded to, in page 61, as infesting 
the gooseberry. This I have no hesitation in saying is a mistake. 
The larvae or caterpillars of the Nematus Capreae, a species of saw- 
fly, are never found on the gooseberry, but feed on the leaves of the 
sallow, and of several species of willow and osier, to which they are 
said to be sometimes very destructive. The saw-fly of the goose¬ 
berry and currant, though it nearly resembles the former, and has 
been confounded with it by Fabricius and other Naturalists, has 
been clearly shown to be a distinct species. [See Kirkbyand Spen¬ 
cer’s Entomology, Vol. 1, page 197.] The latter insect, so noted 
for the devastation which, in its larvae state, it often commits in our 
gardens, is named Nematus Ribesii by Stephens ; and the fly is de¬ 
scribed by the author of the Treatise on Insect Transformations, in 
the Library of Entertaining Knowledge, as having a flat yellow body, 
and four pellucid wings, the two outer ones marked with brown on 
the edge. As I wish to keep within bounds, I refer for proof of the 
correctness of the above remarks, as well as for further information 
onthe subject, to the authors whom I have named. Scotus. 
