McCNAB—CULTIVATION OF CAPE HEATHS. 351 
APPENDIX B. 
months. | By WILLIAM McNAB, | Superintendent of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh; | Associate of the Linnzean and 
Medico-Botanical Societies of | London; | Corres onding Member 
As Scotland is a country already famed for native heather, it 
nyone 
Of the kinds of heather which I intend more particularly to 
tr f, we need be in no apprehension that any will ever 
acclimatized in thi ntry so as to withstand our winters ; for, 
I shall afterwards vx h many of the Cape heaths are 
1 The stranger’s bed 
Was there of mountain heather spread, 
Where oft a hundred guests had lain, 
And dreamed their forests’ sports again ; 
Nor vainly did the heath flower shed 
Its moorland fragrance round his head.”—Str W. Scorr. 
