LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Sprays of White and Purple Heather. - - - Frontispiece 



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A Heather Patch in Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, N. S.. . 16 

 Scotch Heather at Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, 



Mass 17 



Erica vagans, the Cornish Heath 24 



St. Dabeoc's Heath, popularly known as Irish Heather ... 25 



A Bed of Heather, growing at Greystone, Yonkers, N. Y. 32 

 Erica cinerea, with a background of White Heather, in 



Edinburgh (Scotland) Botanic Gardens 33 



Portrait of Mr. Jackson Dawson. who brought the Wild 

 Heather in Massachusetts to the attention of the Horti- 

 cultural World 48 



Portraits of Mr. John Strachan and Wife, and Mrs. Mar- 

 garet Strachan Murray, Scotch folk connected with the 



finding of the Heather in Massachusetts 49 



The Heather growing wild near Tewksbury, Mass 64 



"Vanity Fair's" Cartoon of the Flower Committee of 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society searching for the 



Heather at Tewksbury, Mass 65 



A Heather-thatched Hut in the Eighteenth Century 80 



Scottish Fishermen's Huts Thatched with Heather 81 



A Heather-thatched Cottage 96 



A Garden Hut entirely composed of Heather 97 



Loading Heather, to be used for making Besoms, on Rail- 

 road Trucks 112 



Carrying Peats in Creels from the Bog 113 



Balmoral Castle, the late Queen Victoria's Favorite High- 

 land Residence 128 



Glencoe, the Scene of the Massacre 129 



Calluna vulgaris alba, var. Hammondi 144 



Calluna vulgaris in Meehan's Nurseries, Germantown, Pa. 145 



