620 Bicton Gardens, their Culture and Management. 



me how I could think of such a thing; and told me to make 

 haste and fill the sieve, or the job would not be finished by break- 

 fast-time : and it was more than half-past eight before it was, 

 and my basin of bread and milk was nearly cold when I got 

 home. However, in time, I kept thinking I would try if plants 

 would not grow in mould without sifting. I begged a cucumber 

 plant of my father, made a bed of any rubbish I could get, put 

 a quantity of earth, rough as it was, for them to grow in, and 

 succeeded in getting a famous crop, and sold enough to buy 

 myself a new hat. However, no more notice was taken of it. 

 We continued to sift mould for every thing except melons, both 

 at home and wherever I worked as journeyman : but I always 

 kept thinking, if ever I should be a master myself, I would see 

 if things would not grow without the earth being sifted ; and I 

 have since many times been ridiculed for using it in such a 

 rough state, but I passed it off by saying I had not time to 

 sift it. 



Dimensions, Height, &$c, of a few of the Ericas growing at this Time in the 

 Heath-house at Bicton Gardens. 



[Height- Circumf. 



Massorm, with 132 

 heads of flowers - 

 i/alicacaba - 

 gemmifera 

 mirabilis 

 splendens 

 depressa 

 Sprengeh'i 

 echiiflora 



ventricosa superba - 

 Juliana - 

 ferruginea 

 retorta major - 

 ^jinea - - - 

 ampullacea vittata - 

 cruenta - 

 viridiflora 



metulaeflora, with 

 above 2000 heads 

 of flowers - 

 pilosa - 

 refulgens 

 vestita alba 

 costata - - - 

 rerinthoides major - 



magna 

 tricolor - 



major 



dumosa - 



tenuifolia 

 Irby ana - 

 Mnuseoides superba - 



Height. 



Circumf. 



Ft. In. 



Ft. 



In. 



2 6 



8 



7 



1 6 



6 



6 



2 



6 



10 



1 2 



6 



8 



1 



5 



6 



2 



2 



4 



1 3 



3 







1 2 



3 



6 



1 



4 



6 



6 



4 



3 



1 4 



4 



3 



6 



3 







1 



3 



2 



1 



2 



6 



2 



6 



10 



2 



6 







3 6 



10 



2 



3 



7 



4 



2 6 



7 



2 



2 6 



7 







3 



9 







3 



4 



3 



3 



5 



3 



2 



8 







1 



3 







1 



3 



6 



1 3 



3 



8 



1 6 



6 



6 



1 



5 



2 



Name. 



pellucida 

 sulphurea 

 incarnata 

 ParmentienaW 

 eximia - - - 

 pree'gnans coccinea - 

 reflexa alba 



rubra 

 dilecta - 

 grandinosa 

 vestita rosea - 



purpurea - 

 ventricosa pras'gnans 



carnea 

 flaccida - 



EwerJGwa longiflora- 

 acuminata 

 campanulata - 

 scariosa - 



gnaphalodes - 

 tubifldra 

 imbricata 

 gracilis - 

 translucens 

 fersoluta rubra 

 Paters onidna - 

 perspicua 



elata - ■ - ' - 

 filamentosa 

 assurgens 

 Walkeri«KG 

 perspicua nana 



Ft. 



In. 



1 



6 



1 



6 



2 



4 



1 







1 







1 







2 







1 



6 



1 



6 



2 



6 



1 



6 



1 



8 



1 







1 







2 







1 



10 



2 







1 







1 



3 



1 



2 



2 







1 



4 



1 



6 



2 







2 



6 



2 







1 



2 



2 



6 



1 



4 



1 



2 



1 



6 



1 







Ft. In. 



5 6 





 6 



6 



7 5 



8 

 7 10 

 4 10 



4 10 



5 10 



6 10 

 5 



5 2 



7 8 



6 2 

 4 6 



7 8 



6 



8 



7 11 

 6 6 

 4 6 



