ERICA PLtK 



This is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope : it was introduced in 1774. It is a 

 vigorous growing, bushy species, flowering 

 in spring and summer. It requires the 



but as cuttings will m 

 only be increased by s 

 It was named by Lini 

 and indefatigable Plukenet, who has given 



comprise good figures of several thousand 

 plants, most of which were little known at the 

 time they were published, the beginning of 

 the last century. He appears to have conse- 

 crated his studies to the glory of the Great 

 Creator, whose beautiful productions he 

 viewed with that feeling of admiring and 

 adoring gratitude which they are so evi- 



