ERI'CA AUSTRA'US, 



SPANISH HEATH, 

 Ckus. Order. 



OCTANDBIA. HONOGYNIA, 



Natural Order, 

 junemm. 



No. 54. 



Erica, from the Greek EREICO ; see No. 22, 

 Australia, from the Latin, southern ; a specific 

 name given in consequence of its having been in, 

 troduced from the southern part of Europe, 



This plant will always prove a peculiarly in- 

 teresting appendage to the peat border, and should 

 never be dispensed with. The hardy heaths form 

 a little tribe of shrubs whose beauties we cannot 

 class with the splendour of the Kalmias, the Aza, 

 leas, and the Rhododendrons ; but they equally in, 

 terest us through a far different medium. They 

 introduce themselves to our feelings by their mo, 

 desty and humility ; and we readily adn.it the pro. 

 priety of Dr. Watts' s assertion 



<: Humility's a plant of lovely growth." 

 Still the humble growth of some of the tender species 

 of Erica, whose flowers are occasionally very 

 specious, may further remind us of him who is 

 humble only to embellish his grandeur. 



The Erica australis should be planted in sandy 



peat ; or in a mixture of peat and fresh loam ; and 



like most other of the hardy heaths, though they 



make root but slowly, may be increased by layers, 



Hort.Kew. 2, v. 2, 396. 



