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ArumcrinUum,maculatum,corsicum,tenuifoliurn,ternatum, 

 dnd arisarum, frame herbaceous plants, which grow in sandy 

 loam, and are increased by suckers or dividing at the root. 



Nandina domestica, a Chinese garden shrub, said to pro- 

 duce fruit. It grows in loam and peat, and young cuttings 

 root in sand under a bell-glass. 



Cr^wea saHgria^ grows in sandy peat and loam, and is in- 

 creased by young cuttings in the same soil. 



Dion&a muscifiula Venus* Fly-trafi. This plant thrives 

 best wtien planted in a pot of moss with a little earth at the 

 bottom, and the p-jt placed in a pan of water, and shaded 

 from the meridian sun. Leaves slipped off, and planted in 

 moist moss, will root and become plants. 



Erica^ or Heath. This genus comprises natives of differ- 

 ent countries, but most of the fine varieties are from the 

 Cape of Good Hope and its vicinity. Some of the species are 

 in flower all the winter, a few regularly blossom in March 

 and April, and a great variety in every month to November 

 inclusive. The flowers of most of them are small, delicate, 

 and bsll shaped ; others long and tube shaped, of all shades 

 of pink and purple ; others white, yellow, orange or scarlet, 

 and being produced in great profusion over the whole plant, 

 intermixed with the most delicate foliage of the finest green 

 of various shades, according to the species or variety, causes 

 them to be justly admired as some of the most pleasing orna- 

 ments of the Green-house. They have in England four or five 

 hundred species and varieties, the most of which are figured 

 in Andrews's Heathtry, and many of them in the Botanic 

 Magazine- Heaths are so difficult to transport over sea, 

 that only about fifty kinds have been received alive in this 

 country, but many have been reared from seeds. 



The only soil, in which Heaths will grow is earth of peat 

 if any substitute can be found it is leaf mould sifted very fins,, 

 and mixed with fine sand; or bog earth from a swamp v.iicre 

 there is turf used as fuel, taken out in the summer when the 

 swamps are free from water, and laid in heaps to drain ; and 

 at the commencement of winter spread thin about a foot in 

 fbpth, that the frost may penetrate through and decompose 

 it ; in the spring have it turned over and made fine ; and if 

 it is found not to contain sufficient sand, it will be necessary 

 to add some fine sand to it, and have it well incorporated to- 

 gether: fine sand of any colour will answer, provided it be 

 free from irony impregnations. This san:l admits the water 

 to penetrate into the soil and reach the roots of the plants* 



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