No. 864. 
ERICA ECHIIFLORA. 
Class, Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGFNIA. 
A pretty sort, which was introduced from 
the Cape of Good Hope about the year 1798. 
It flowers in the spring, continues a long 
time in beauty, and sometimes produces 
ripe seeds here. It may also be increased 
by cuttings. It is moderately quick in 
growth, although it seldom attains above 
two feet in height. It is necessary to pot it 
in sandy peat earth, and preserve itin an 
airy greenhouse. 
At this delightful season, when nature is 
adorned with renovated beauty after the 
severities of a long winter, what countless 
motives have all rational beings to celebrate 
the praises of the Most High! He is the 
inexhaustible fountain of real felicity ; for 
in His presence there is fullnes ofjoy. Oh 
that we who are every moment partaking 
of His bounty, were but conscious how much 
our happiness would be increased, by con- 
stantly availing ourselves of such occasions 
as every where abound, to excite our minds 
to universal gratitude and love to Him! 
