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Collection of Hardy Heaths. 



Concolor superba Lambertia 



Cupressina Laxa 



Denticulata 



Exsurgens 



Filamentosa (fig 75. g.) (fig. 75. b.) 



Flava Lutea 



Floribunda [fig. 73. j.) Mammosa (fig. 65. g.) 



Formosa Mucosa (fig. 73./.) 



Furfurosa Mutabilis 



Gracilis Oppositifolia 



Grandinosa (fig. 72. b.) Ovaliflora 



Hirta Pellucida 



Hispidula Pinea 



Ignescens (fig. 65. c.) Prsestans 



Imbricata Princeps (fig. 68. e.) 



Pubescens major 

 minima 



Sessiliflora (clavasflora, 



Andr. 66. a.) 

 Solandra 



Leucanthera (fig. 74. b.) Pulchella 



Longipedunculata Pyramidalis (fig. 15. f) Sordida 



Radiata Sparsa 



Ramentacea (fig. 73. a.) Taxifolia (fig. 70. e.) 



Regerminans 

 Retorta (fig. 68. g.) 

 Rollisson's blanda 

 Rubens (fig. 70./.) 

 Savillea 

 Scabriuscula 

 Sebana aurantia 



! — lutea 



Serpyllifolia 



Templea 



Tenella 



Transparens 



Triceps 



Triumphans (fig. 70. A.) 



Vernix 



coccinea 



Versicolor (fig. 65. b.) 

 Vestita purpurea (67. h.) 



Serratifolia (fig. 65./.) Viridescens 



The above display is formed of 285 species and varieties, 

 which are numbered to show of what sorts this display is com- 

 posed. In an ornamental point of view, the growth of plants 

 in beds or borders of earth is far preferable to growing them in 

 pots, and the genus Erica we think might be so grown, covered 

 for five or six months in the year with a movable glass roof, at 

 less expense, less trouble and risk than usual, and superior 

 beauty. We do not allude to those movable roofs, where, 

 when the sashes are taken ofr^ the rafters, walls, and flues re- 

 main to disfigure the scene. To these there can be no objections 

 in kitchen-gardens ; but in ornamental scenery the roof should 

 be so completely removed as to leave no traces of its appear- 

 ance. This might easily be done by supporting it on movable 

 iron props, which might fit into fixed sockets, and by having 

 the flues under the paths. For six months of the year they 

 would appear like a clump of hardy shrubs, and if they were 

 planted on a rocky slope, or the surface arranged somewhat 

 according to the native soils and situations of the plants, but 

 not overdone, the illusion would be greater. 



Monthly List of Hardy Heaths which have been in Flower in 

 the open Air in the Tooting Nursery. The Heights of the 

 tall growing Sorts given in Feet. 



JANUARY. 



1. Carnea (fig. 74. h.) 



2. herbacea 



FEBRUARY. 



3. Arborea, 5 

 Carnea (fig. 71. h ) 



herbacea 



MARCH. 



Arborea, 5 



4. Australis, 4 

 Carnea (fig. 74. h.) 



herbacea 



5. Mediterranea, 4 



(fig.K-i.) 

 APRIL. 

 Arborea, 5 

 Australis, 4 

 Carnea (fig. 74. h.) 

 — ^— herbacea 

 Mediterranea, 4. 



(fig- 74. i.) ■ 



6. Scoparia, 6 



MAY. 

 Arborea, 5 

 Australis, 4 

 Mediterranea, 4 



(fig. 74. ».) 

 Scoparia, 6 



7. Umbellata 



8. Viridi-purpurea 



JUNE. 

 Arborea, 5 

 Australis, 4 



9. Cinerea alba 



10. rubra 



11. Multiflora alba 



12. rubra 



13. Polifolia 



14. nana 



Scoparia, 6 

 15. Tetralix alba 



16. rubra 



Umbellata 

 Viridi-purpurea 

 17. Vulgaris 



18. alba 



19. decumbens 



20. flore pleno 



21. spuria 



22. variegata 



JULY. 

 Australis, 4 

 23. Ciliaris (fig. 75. a.) 

 Cinerea alba 



rubra 



Multiflora alba 



Multiflora rubra 

 Polifolia 



nana 



Tetralix alba 



rubra 



Umbellata 

 24.Vagans alba.(fig.75.c.) 



■ rubra 



(fig. 75. c.) 

 Viridi-purpurea 

 Vulgaris 

 — — — alba 



decumbens 



-^—^— flore pleno 

 — ^— — spuria 



variegata 



AUGUST. 

 Ciliaris (fig. 75. a.) 

 Cinerea alba 



rubra 



Multiflora alba 



rubra 



Polifolia 



nana 



26. Stricta, 2 



Tetralix alba 

 rubra 



Vagans alba 



Number of species and varieties twenty-six. 



Vagans rubra 



Viridi-purpurea 



Vulgaris 



■■ alba 



decumbens 



flore pleno 



spuria 



variegata 



SEPTEMBER. 

 .Ciliaris (fig. 15. a.) 

 Cinerea alba 



rubra 



Multiflora alba 

 — - — — rubra 

 Polifolia 



nana 



Stricta, 2 



OCTOBER. 

 Multiflora alba 



rubra 



Stricta, 2 



NOVEMBER. 

 Multiflora alba 



rubra 



Stricta, 2 



DECEMBER. 

 Carnea 

 — — herbacea 



