better. Then, as to watering, great care may be taken. A 
Geranium may be neglected, and even droop its leaves, but 
with a liberal supply it soon recovers, and seems none the 
worse for it; but if the ball of a Heath once gets dry, its future 
recovery we believe to be utterly hopeless: and, unlike the 
Geranium, it will not show it; it will still look comparatively 
fresh till the death-blow has been dealt it. Hence the need 
of very careful gardening, and hence, probably, the chief reason 
for their not being so largely grown. 
But what can be more beautiful than they are ? Look at 
the w 7 ax-like flowers of the tricolor varieties, or Mctssonii and 
aristata major , or the graceful snow-white pendent blooms of 
intermedia and JBoweiana ? What can be more beautiful than 
elegans , or more unique than a well-grown plant of Caven- 
dishii? Nor is perfume, though rare, wanting. There is no¬ 
thing more exquisitely delicate, more suggestive of Attar of 
Boses in the whole range of Flora’s demesne than rosea odo- 
rata. But to enumerate their beauties we should have to 
name all the tribe. 
We are indebted to the kindness of Messrs. Bollison, of 
Tooting, for the opportunity of figuring the two varieties on the 
Plate, and for the following information concerning them:— 
“ Erica profusa (fig. 1) was raised between Macnabiana rosea and 
aristata major , the former being the mother-plant. Erica 
affinis (fig. 2) was raised between E. Cavendishiana (also our 
seedling) and E. depresses the mother-plant being depressa. 
It bloomed in our Nursery first about six years ago. Both of 
these Heaths are invaluable to the Heath-grower, being very 
free bloomers and of excellent habit, E. profusa is now just 
about to bloom at every point; it never fails.” 
