August 20, 1890.] 



Garden and Forest. 



407 



Heaths every four or five years, for, although the plants live 

 for a very much longer time, the old stems give them a strag- 

 gling appearance. There is a good deal of difference in the 

 time of flowering of different plants of Heather. Blossoms are 

 often produced early in July, but generally in this latitude the 

 plants are in the best flowering condition in the first and 

 second week of August. 



f The Cornish Heath {Erica vagans) is much less hardy than 

 the common Heath, and requires more protection to be 



averaging about a quarter of an inch in length, are borne in 

 close terminal clusters of from eight or ten to fifteen or twenty. 

 The first flowers open about the middle of June, and the best 

 flowering period is in the early part of July, but blossoms are 

 freely produced throughout the month, and a few still remain 

 when the two preceding species are in their most showy con- 

 dition in early August. 



The little Gray or Scotch Heath or Heather (E. cinerea) re- 

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equally satisfactory. The small showy pink, or sometimes 

 nearly white, flowers, are borne thickly around the upper por- 

 tions of the branches, and are occasionally crowded so near 

 the extremities as to form almost globular clusters. They ap- 

 pear at the same season as those of the Ling. 



Erica tetralix, or the Four-leaved Heath, with some pro- 

 tection, is fairly hardy, and well worth cultivating. The foliage 

 has a dusty grayish hue, and the whole effect of the plant is 

 not so pleasing as either of the other species. Its red flowers, 



to thrive well. The very showy, dense terminal racemes of 

 reddish purple flowers are produced during the summer and 

 autumn, but most freely in the latter part of July and in early 

 August. There are forms with darker or lighter or with white 

 blossoms. 



Erica camea has been several times mentioned in these 

 pages for its early spring-flowering habit. It well repays a lit- 

 tle winter protection in the fresh pale red flowers which begin 

 to open in the late autumn and may be gathered bright and 



