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air, To have them in perfection, a‘separate house is indis 
pensable. The heath-house should be very well lighted 
easily and thoroughly ventilated, and so planned that the 
plants may be near the glass; at the same time provision 
should be made, by means of rollers of thin canvas, to 
protect the plants from the scorching rays of the summer 
sun, which are apt to induce mildew. For further infor- 
mation, we may refer to the excellent little treatise of Mr. 
M’Nab, of the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, whose success 
in this department is quite unrivaled, and in whose hands 
Cape heaths attain a splendor which, we believe, they never 
attain in the environs of Fable Mountain itself. The 
Epacride are a lovely tribe from New Holland, which 
should be cultivated along with the Cape heaths; particu- 
larly Epacris impressa, nivalis, variabilis, and campanu- 
Tata. 
List of free-blooming Hardy Heaths, in their order of 
flowering from January to December. (Communi. 
cated by Mr. J. McNab.) 
Erica herbacea. Erica Mackayana. 
carnea. ramulosa. 
— mediterranea hybernica. ciliaris, 
—— intermedia. stricta. 
——_— —_ stricta. Calluna vulgaris, white, pink, red, 
—_—————_———_ nana, and double. 
-—— arborea. Erica cinerea, varieties. 
—— australis. vagams, 
— —— nara multiflora carnea, 
—— tetralix, varieties. ——. rubra. 
The superb genus Camellia is the only other that shall 
here be noticed. To the elegance of the finest evergreen, 
the Camellia Japonica unites the beauty of the fairest rose. 
The Camellia, though a native of Japan, is not particularly 
tender, but, from some peculiarities in its constitution, its 
