THE HEATHER IN AMERICA. 



the plant was accustomed to complete protection by 

 snow from changes of temperature the whole winter 

 through. Unfortunately, we have no specimens from 

 Newfoundland, and Dr. Seemann does not speak of the 

 Cape Breton, Nova Scotian, or New England plants. 

 Upon examination of these, we do not find that the 

 indicated differences in structure (mainly the naked 

 pedicels, broader sepals, and tip of flowering branches 

 not continued into a leaf shoot while the flowering 

 lasts) coincide or hold out. So that as yet a second 

 species can hardly be said to be established. 



There is a story told that the plant was introduced 

 into the maritime provinces by some Scottish emigrants 

 who on the voyage thither used the Heather as a bed, 

 as they were wont to do in their native country ; 

 brought the material on shore ; the seeds got scattered 

 and finding an agreeable soil, took lodgment, rooted 

 and flourished. 



Heather is also found introduced at Halifax, but 

 is said to have been brought over from Scotland by 

 some soldiers of a Highland regiment once stationed 

 there. It was planted near one of the forts, and has 

 thriven well. There is now a quarter of an acre of 

 Heather at Point Pleasant Park, Halifax. 



S. S. Bain, a prominent florist of Montreal, and 

 a Scotsman, writes me that two friends of his, also 

 from Scotland, prospecting for the yellow metal on 

 the Yukon, found themselves on a mountain overtaken 

 by the darkness. They made their bed as best they 

 could, and when morning light came they discovered 

 they had been sleeping on a bed of Heather. The 



