402 Selection of Heaths for flowering in Succession, 



me to say that no one need be afraid of losing it. It is of easy 

 treatment, being not at all fastidious in its habits. 

 Kingsbury Gardens, June 8. 1839. 



Great merit is due to Mr. Beaton for having brought this 

 plant so early, and so prominently, before the public ; having 

 first exhibited it, as soon as he found it developing its charac- 

 ters from the seedling state. When he did this, the plant could 

 hardly be said to exist in Europe. He deserves the greater 

 praise for this liberality, since it too often happens, that the 

 existence of rarities of great value, like this Wistarm, is kept 

 a secret by their possessor till the plant has flowered ; or, what 

 frequently happens, till it is lost to the country altogether. 

 Had Mr. Beaton acted on this principle, this new Wistarza 

 mio-ht not have come into general cultivation for some years to 

 come ; whereas even now, we believe, it may be purchased in 

 the Clapton Nursery. — Cond. 



Art. VI. A Selection of Heaths, made tvith a Vietv of having several 

 Species in Flower during every Month in the Year, "with Remarks 

 on their Culture, fyc. By W. A. Masters, late Sub-Curator of the 

 Canterbury Museum. 



Of all Flora's beauties, none, perhaps, lay claim to so much 

 of our attention as the different species of heaths ; for no 

 one genus produces such a very numerous variety of exquisite 

 forms, or presents such delicate tints of colouring, or such a 

 diversified manner of growth ; some of them being miniature 

 representatives of the tallest pines of the forest, while others 

 are so like the moss that surrounds them, as at a little distance 

 easily to be mistaken for it. 



It is only within the last few years that I have paid any 

 attention to this truly lovely genus ; and in that time I have 

 prcved that with a collection of 30 kinds, we may have seve- 

 ral species in flower every day in the year, generally, I think, 

 about six kinds, namely, during 



January and February. .Erica Linnaeawtf, Archerm, scabrius- 

 cula, carinata, gracilis, and pellucida. 



March and April. .Erica hirta, vestita, ardens, hybrida major, 

 and cerinthoides superba. 



May and June. .Erica perspicua nana, odora rosea, umbel- 

 lata, versicolor, ventricosa, and grandiflora. 



July and August. .Erica prae'gnans, Coventry<2?2#, propendens, 

 verticillata nova, mammosa, and Bowieawff. 



September and October. Erica Ewerawa, acuminata, mutabilis, 

 concinna, vestita, and vernix coccinea. 



