354 HISTORY OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN. 
Magazine,” 8s I, p. 131. Of a more recent date, Mr Cunningham, 
nurseryman, Comely Bank, near Edinburgh, has by far the richest 
Se ie ae oi any in Scotland, and, I believe, few even in England 
a5 I shall be fortunate enough to convey wide coe my ideas on 
the cultivation of this highly interesting genus, I doubt not but we 
shall soon see them greater favourites than hey have ever ver yet been. 
m quite aware “that it is no easy matter for a com- 
experience, and more particularly, for one who has not been much 
accust one to use the pen; all that I shall therefore attempt is, to 
point out as distinctly as I can, the trea —— which I have found, 
from long practice and observation, to answer best. Any person 
who does not wish to cultivate a full acllection ‘of them, may have a 
selection of from fifty to one hundred sorts, which will flower in 
opinion, but I believe a very general one, that Cape heaths will not 
thrive well in a greenhouse, intermi xed with other greenhouse 
slectas ut I know, from experience, that Cape heaths will 
thrive quite as well in a green-house, well ventilated, with other hardy 
greenhouse plants, such as some of those from the Cape of Good 
ae and New South Wales, as they will do in a house by them- 
temperature for heaths, will also thrive equally ‘hc in a house kept 
at a temperature for Cap e Geraniacee. Thou ore 
1 
L Spuheegtaad seed are cecal not so See oh of injury from it. 
know, however, that heaths will bear a ee of cold in the oe een- 
house in winter (which, I am persuaded, is beneficial to their health) 
1 A list of these will be found in the Appendix. 
