YELLOW HEATH. 



Ei'icii I'lifnidhliiinia. 



flK'A Cii reiulix/iiiiini derives 

 its name from liaviny been 

 fiirmerly known as tlie 

 "Duke of Devonshire's gol- 

 ileu lieath.'^ Its liistory is 

 in\(_jl\'e(l in some obseurity. 

 It came into being anterior 

 io tlie days of illustrated 

 horticultural periodicals, and 

 therefore obtained less atten- 

 tion than such a tine plant 

 Avould have attracted at 

 the jireseut day on first 

 appeariug- as a novelty. It 

 was raised Ijy the INIessrs. 

 Rollison and Sons, of the 

 celebrated Tooting Nur- 

 series, by fertilising tlie 

 Howers of Ei-'h-k (Jcjifex^a 

 with the pollen of E. F(il,;r- 

 ■1011 1. Both these have yel- 

 low flowers, and the Cavendish hybrid is a, Huer plant 

 than either of them, and jiarticularly well adapted for 

 sjjecimen cultivation. In the times that are spoken 

 of as the "palmy cia^s of Chiswick," the Cavendish 



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