THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



AUGUST 1st, 1837. 



PART I. 



OKIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



ARTICLE I. 

 ON THE CULTURE OF HEATHS, &c. 



BY MR. JOHN FYFFE, GARDENER TO THE REV. W. MANSFIELD, MILTON 

 BRYANT, WOBURN, BEDFORDSHIRE. 



In the number of your Magazine for February, there is a query 

 on the management of ' Ericeas,' by W. P. Hamelton, in which 

 he complains of being unsuccessful in the cultivation of that in- 

 teresting tribe of plants, he seems to be anxious for any informa- 

 tion on the subject, and from the experience which I have had in 

 their cultivation, I hope to be able to point out a few of the er- 

 rors which that writer may have fallen into in his management. 



Your Correspondent in the first place complains of his Heatlis 

 getting naked, or more properly speaking, rusty ; this I should 

 say is from the effects of drought, being crowded close together, 

 on the pots being exposed to the powerful rays of the sun ; if the 

 pots are placed in the open air as is the practice with the most 

 of our hardy G. H. plants (this is always the case with the more 

 tender sorts of the Ericase : the sun acts so powerfully on the 

 pots when exposed for any period of time, as to dry the ball com- 

 pletely, and allowing the plant to be watered with the greatest 

 care, the substance of peat soil being of a peculiar drying 

 nature, the water often runs off, if the plants are potted high, 

 without penetrating to the centre of the ball ; this is the cause 

 ofbeaths going off so suddenly. When once allowed to get 



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