RELATION TO HEATHER 107 



of this worthless plant, possessing some 

 grace of form it must be admitted, is a 

 very serious fact in the present day, and 

 either for prevention or extirpation no one 

 has yet put forward any effective remedy, 

 though rewards to this end have been 

 offered by the Highland and Agricultural 

 Society, and other bodies interested in the 

 matter. Further reference to this problem 

 will be made elsewhere ; and, it need 

 only here be added that landowners in 

 Scotland, especially Highland owners, and 

 grazing and shooting tenants alike, as well 

 as multitudes who are not among these 

 classes, will not willingly let anything 

 happen, suddenly or insidiously, to the 

 injury or ruin of our beloved heather. 



