Note 163 — Chapter VI · (continued 2)

Mr. Bowerbank, who possesses an unrivalled collection of these fruits, keeps them in stopper-bottles filled with water, placing the different species separately, and labelling the phials. I have successfully employed mastic varnish, first wiping the specimens dry, and removing any saline efflorescence by means of raw cotton, and then brushing in the varnish with a stiff hair-pencil.

[164] See vol. ii. Excursion to the Isle of Sheppey.