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FAMILIAR nARDEK FimrETtS. 



BeprcHna, AvRlituinui, and Tortilijioni , for the niitumii. 

 They do not flower at the same time from ;\'env to year; 

 they observe what may l)e called o-eneral rather than 

 particular seasons, and hence where there is anything like a 

 collection spring-flowering- kinds will he found to flower in 

 antumn, and some few will h<? nearly always in bloom. 



The splendour of the Cape heaths does not diminish 

 our regard for those beauties of the moorland that our 

 native ericas so bravely represent. As the poet writes : — 



" Tho erica here, 

 That o'er the Caledonian hills sublime 

 Spreads its dark mantle, where the bees delight 

 To seek their purest honey, flcnri.shes. 

 Sometimes with bells like amethysts, and then 

 Paler, and shaded like the maiden's rheek 

 With E-radual blushes." 



