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the spaces this season with herbaceous flowering plants, intending to do away 

 with them when the shrubs were so extended as to fill up the vacancies. He 

 protested against the propriety of doing so, and assured me it was a bad dis- 

 play of gardening, and quite opposite to a real and proper taste therein. I 

 contended it was much better to inako a show of flowers in the vacancies, 

 than to keep the ground bare. He added, I might have planted an extra 

 quantity of shrubs to fill up entire at first, and then have drawn the portion 

 not required for final effect. I protested against this, because I had no 

 other ground to plant them in, and I could not think of turning nurseryman 

 by selling them off, to the disgrace of myself, and injury of the trade, as it is 

 termed. Being inexperienced in the true and proper art, and present taste 

 of pleasure and flower gardening, I make the request, through the medium 

 of the Cabinet, that some of the readers thereof who understand the subject, 

 will be kind enough to give me an opinion upon it. I am anxious to b« 

 right, and not for my arrangement to be a laughing-stock to my friends. 

 August 6, 1835. Juvenis. 



ANSWERS. 



On Hard* Heaths. — Observing that " G. XV." in the July Number, p. 

 159, of the Cabinet, requests a list of those kinds of Heaths that will flourish 

 in the open air in this country, and being an equal admirer with G. W. of 

 that very interesting and beautiful genus of plants, I forward you the list of 

 those I cultivate, most of which I have grown for several years. The only 

 mode of treatment I find they requiro is, to give a sandy peat and loamy 

 soil, well broken, and to plant them in some place where they may be pro- 

 tected from strong winds, some of the kinds being very brittle. I am not 

 aware where the whole of the kinds may be procured, but if not to be found 

 in any single nursery, a nurseryman will generally apply to others to furnish 

 him with what he is deficient in. I have procured mine by noticing the 

 sorts grown in the gardens and nurseries which I occasionally visit, and or- 

 dering them at the time ; and I always, when the season was suitable, had 

 them taken up in my presence, by which I secured the sorts correctly. I 

 have planted my stock, amounting to upwards of five hundred plants, upon 

 a sloping bank, and in one general mass, and it has a very pretty appearance 

 at all seasons, but particularly so when in blossom. Some of the plants form 

 bushes a yard in diameter. I am very desirous to see this pretty tribe of 

 plants more generally cultivated, particularly in masses. I am sure it will 

 give the greatest satisfaction to those who adopt it. 



Erica arborea 



stylosa 

 australis 



superba 

 camea 



prsecox 

 ciliaris 

 cinerea 



alba 



atrosanguinca 



camea 



monstrosa 



rubra 

 mediterranea 

 minima 

 multiflora 

 ramulosa 

 stricta 

 tetralix 

 Lancashire, July 27 (A, 1835 



HAKDy HEATHS. 



Erica tetralix alba 

 carnea 

 umbellata 

 vagans 



alba 

 pallida 

 tenella 

 viridipurpurea 

 vulgaris (calluna) 

 alba 

 aurea 

 coccinea 

 decumbens 

 flore pleno 

 spicata 

 spuria 

 tomentosa 

 variegata 



11, P, Jokes, 



