March 23, 1892.] 



Garden and Forest. 



137 



may be bought in Covent Garden market about Christmas- 

 time for eighteen pence. The plants are usually in five-inch 

 pots, and the shoots average a foot in height. The flowers 



perish almost as soon as the flowers — that is, all those 

 which find their way into the window of a house or into 

 a small g-reenhouse. And this accounts for the enormous 



Fig. 21. — Erica li}emalis. — See page 136. 



remain fresh for at least a month. The popularity of this number disposed of every year. In England E. hyemalis 



Heath is thus easily accounted for : it is cheap, very pretty is certainly one of the most valuable market-plants ever 



when in flower, and lasts just long enough to satisfy the introduced, 

 masses who like window-plants and change. The plants It is strange that a plant which has enjoyed an excep- 



