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QUERIES ANJ) ANSWERS. 
I SHOULD BE OBLIGED BY A FIGURE OF A GOOSEBERRY AND CURRANT BUSII 
well pruned: The Currant-Bush is very characteristically exhibited in Cobbett’s 
“ English Gardener.” You should shew us the bush in its unpruned state, and 
then the same bush pruned, illustrating what has been done by references. I 
believe the same plan might be adopted for illustrating the method of pruning 
all sorts of fruit trees. There is nothing so difficult to describe verbally, and 
yet a drawing renders all plain and easy. 
How shall i preserve Specimens of Plants ?—I should be much obli 
ged, if some of your correspondents, would inform me of the best, easiest, and 
cheapest method of preserving dried specimens of plants, for I wish to form a 
Herbarium. 
How shall I preserve Moths and Butterflies, &c. ?—What is the best 
method of preserving butterflies, moths, and other insects, so as they will retain 
their beautiful tints of colour? I should also like to know if there be any way 
to preserve the eggs of birds, so as to prevent the spots on the shells from disap¬ 
pearing. 1 have tried several times, but they have always lost their colours. I 
wish to keep one of each sort for a reference at any time. J. K. 
Error in the Article on Rhubarb, Page 153.—I am sorry to be again 
so soon obliged to trespass upon your attention with the notice of an error in 
your Register , for April last, page 153. In the quotation from Gerard’s Herbal 
respecting rhubarb, you will find, on a reference to thatexcellent and extraordinary 
book, that his anecdote relates to the Hippolapathum satirum, Monk’s Rhubarb, 
or Herb Patience. See page 392 of Johnson’s Gerard. I observe in Donn’s 
Catal. that Garden Patience, Rumex patientia, and Monk’s Rhubarb, R. alpinus, 
are stated as different species, and both of foreign origin. Father Gerard takes 
no notice of this circumstance, but Parkinson mentions it in his Herbal, at page 
157. An old clergyman, a brother-in-law of mine, who had been occasionally 
engaged in controversial divinity, advised me always to examine quotations 
from books, for said he you will often find them incorrect or inapplicable. 
Erdington , near Birmingham, Mag 23rd , 1833. T. B. Buxton. 
P. S. I am much obliged to you for the Rhubarb seeds, some of which are 
now growing in my garden, and I beg your acceptance of three small papers of 
East India seeds, which were gathered last year. The Cuddalore shrub is com¬ 
mended as very fragrant, but the person who gave the seeds to me is no bota¬ 
nist, and I therefore know nothing about the plant. The Lettuces, he says, are 
small but very good, and the Shaddock very fine. 
Answer to Mr. Brown on Seymour’s System of Training. —The re¬ 
marks made in answer to Mr. Cameron will probably be sufficiently conclusive 
for Mr. Brown, who unfortunately quotes the observations of Mr. J. Harrison to 
prove the imperfection of Seymour’s system of training. Although Mr. H. for¬ 
merly condemned it, he is now not only become a convert to the practise, but 
a strenuous advocate in its favour. If Mr. Brown saw them trained to the per¬ 
fection of which they are capable on Seymour’s plan, I am not sure that he 
would not be of the same opinion. All that I have hitherto advanced, I in¬ 
tend to maintain. Henry Dyson. 
How SHALL 1 destroy Earwigs ! — 1 had a great quantity of Dahlias 
planted out in the borders, and these depredators began to strip them, they have 
already done this so effectually in some cases that not a single leaf remains. 
They totally disappear in the day-time, and begin their mischief at night, f 
