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The nomenclature of our apples is in great confusion, and we 

 think it will be almost impossible to do much towards clearing 

 it up, until the numerous varieties can be collected together, 

 the trees brought into bearing, their characteristics studied, 

 and a careful examination made of the fruit. This we hope 

 to do, having upwards of two hundred sorts, which will soon 

 enable us to commence our labors. — Ed. 



Art. VI. On the Cultivation and Treatment of Cape Heaths 

 {Ericas). By John Cadness, Gardener to Mr. J. L. L. F. 

 Warren, Brighton. 



I SEND you an article upon the cultivation of that splendid, 

 but, I am sorry to say, much neglected tribe of plants. Cape 

 Heaths, a genus, all the species of which are eminently beau- 

 tiful and worthy the most assiduous cultivation, if you should 

 think my remarks worth a place in your magazine. 



Heaths are all of them especial favorites of mine, and 

 wherever I have had opportunity, I have paid considerable 

 attention to their cultivation, and I am greatly surprised that, 

 when such good specimens of other green-house plants are 

 grown in the neighborhood and exhibited in Boston, no 

 attempt has been made to grow a collection of the finer vari- 

 eties of this plant : there is, I know, some difficulty in manag- 

 ing some of the best kinds, but I have not the least doubt, 

 that, if proper provision were made for them, and proper care 

 bestowed upon them, they could be sufficiently well grown to 

 make them one of the greatest ornaments of the green-house. 

 The great difficulty in cultivating these plants with success, 

 is the extreme cold of winter and the extreme heat of summer; 

 the consequence of which is, in the former case, the plants are 

 exposed to a great degree of fire heat, and a too warm and 

 variable atmosphere at a season when they should be kept 

 cool and perfectly at rest ; for they, like all other plants, must 

 have their dormant season or winter ; for they can never be 

 expected to flower finely and as they should do, when they 

 are growing more or less the year round. But in order to give 



