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Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. 
and fmall bunches of white flowers at the ends of the 
branches.—Native of Virginia and Canada. ( Any 
common foil.') 
It is admitted in Ihrubberies as an ever-green and 
flowering 7 fhrub; may be procured at the nurferies, and 
planted in fpring or autumn, afligning it a forward fitu- 
ation : is propagated by the trailing rooting fiems, and 
©ff-fet fuckers, taken off in the autumn or fpring, and 
planted in the lhrubbery, or in a nurfery, for a year 
or two, alfo by layers and cuttings of the Ihoots. 
Erica, HEATH. 
Clafs and Order. 
O&andria Monogynia, 
Eight Males, One Female ; 
Or Plants producing Hermaphrodite Flowers , having 
eight Stamina, or Males, and one Pijlillum, or Fe- 
male. 
THE Erica furnifhes feveral hardy fpecies of fmall 
under-fhrubby, ever-green, flowering plants, for the 
lhrubbery, of fpreading and upright bulhy growth, 
one to two or three feet high, clolely garnilhed with 
minute Ample leaves, by two, three, four, and five 
together; and many fmall quadrifid flowers; purple, 
red, &c. arranged along the upper pari of the ihoots; 
having four-leaved, coloured cups, the corolla or 
flower fmall, monopetalous, fwelling, four-parted, 
containing eight fmall ftamina, and one piilillum, fuc- 
ceeded by a quadrilocular or four-celled feed capiules, 
ripening feed in autumn; by which the plants may be 
raifed, and are propagated alfo plemeoufly by od-fet 
fuckers, and layers of the branches. 
The principal hardy ERICAS are, 
I. Erica ■vulgaris, Common Wild Heath. 
A final*, fpreading Ihrubby plant— he leaves (very 
fmall) arrow-ihape, oppofite; and the corolla or 
flower bell-form, unequal, with the anthera two¬ 
horned, included.—Native of England and mod parts 
of Europe, on ftcrile commons, or heaths. (Any foil.) 
Varieties. —Common Purple-flowered Heath. 
White-flowered Common Heath. 
2. Erica ciliaris. Ciliated-leaved Portugal Heath. 
A fmall, flrrubby plant, two feet high—the leaves 
(fmall) ovate-oblong, acute, placed by threes, the 
edges ciliated or hairy; and the corolla ovate, irre¬ 
gular ; the flowers threed-cluilered, with the anthera 
Ample, included.—Native of Portugal. (Any dry foil.) 
3. Erica cinerea, Afh-coloured-barked Heath. 
A dwarfifh under-lhrub, the bark whitifh—the 
leaves ( fmall narrow) linear, fmooth, growing by 
threes; and ovate flowers cluftered; with two-horned 
anthera, included.—Native of the middle parts of Eu¬ 
rope and the Ealt. {Any common foil.) 
4. Erica multiflora, Many Flowered Heath. 
A fmall flirub of two feet growth—the leaves 
{fmall, long) by fives, and fpreading; with flowers cy- 
lindric, numerous, purple, with Ample bifid anthera. 
—Native of England, France, and the Eaft. {Any 
common foil.) 
5. Erica Tetralix —(Tetralix) or Four-leaved Red 
‘ Heath. 
A fmall under-fhrub—the leaves {fmall) awl-fhape, 
ciliated, or hair-edged, placed by fours, fpreading ; 
and flowers (dark-red) fub-globofe, crouded, longer 
than the leaves, with anthera two-horned, included.— 
Native of the northern parts of Europe, in marlhy 
places. {Moif, or any foil.) 
6. Erica triflora, Three-flowered African Heath. 
A fmall Ihrub—the leaves {fmall) growing by 
threes, flowers fub-globofe, fomewhat hairy, placed 
by threes together, peduncles or flower-flalks three¬ 
leaved, and with bifid anthera, included.—Native of 
./Ethiopia. {Warm, dry filiation.) 
The three following, which, like the foregoing, are 
fmall Ihrubby ever-greens, are alfo fometunes intro¬ 
duced among the hardy Ericas, but Ihould have a warm 
Ihekered fituation. 
7. Erica mediterranea, Mediterranean Purple Heath. 
8 . Erica aufralis. Southern Heath. 
9. Erica longifora, Long-flowered Heath. 
All thefe fpecies'of Erica are admitted in fhrub- 
beries, flower-borders, and other compartments of the 
pleafure-ground, for variety and ornament, both as 
fmall Ihrubby ever-greens, and feveral of themalfoare 
very pretty little flowering ihrubs, of very ornamental 
appearance in fummer, in their fmall but numerous 
flowers; will all fucceed in any common foil, but ge¬ 
nerally allot the lad four forts a warm flickered 
fituation; or fome alfo planted in pots to move 
under Aielter of a frame or green-houfe in winter : 
may be fupplied with moft or ajl the forts at the nur- 
ferics for planting, which may be performed in autumn 
or in any of the fpring months, afligning them places 
in fome principal compartments and front fituation 
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