INTRODUCTION
A SHORT DISSERTATION
MODE OF CULTURE
ALPHABETICAL INDEX
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THE
HEATHERY;
OR A
MONOGRAPH
OF
THE GENUS ERICA:
CONTAINING
COLOURED ENGRAVINGS,
WITH
LATIN AND ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONS, DISSECTIONS, ETC.
OF ALL
THE KNOWN SPECIES OF THAT EXTENSIVE AND DISTINGUISHED
TRIBE OF PLANTS.
By H. C. ANDREWS.
IN SIX VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1845.
INTRODUCTION.
As an apology for the present undertaking, the Author has only toobserve, that the very great encouragement he has received in his folioedition of the Ericas, joined with the repeated application of many ofits subscribers, for a small, concise, and pleasant reference to thatbeautiful and extensive tribe, has induced him to offer to the amateursof plants in general, the present Monograph; in which will be given allthe known species, and likewise all those successively that mayhereafter be introduced; with Latin and English descriptions,dissections, &c. on the same plan as the folio work.
The Author therefore hopes it will be regarded as an agreeablegreen-house companion, calculated to preserve the folio edition for theuse of the library, to which on account of its size it is best adapted.
When one volume is completed, every necessary requisite for binding[Pg 5][Pg 4]will be given.
A SHORT DISSERTATION.
This beautiful and extended tribe of plants, at present so much admiredand cultivated in our British Gardens, is but of recent introduction, atleast the major part of them, as antecedent to the year 1772 the fewspecies then known were the E. vulgaris, E. Tetralix, E. cinerea, and E.vagans, natives; the E. Dabœcii, from Ireland; the E. arborea fromMadeira in 1748; the E. herbacea or carnea in 1763 from Switzerland; theE. mediterranea in 1765 from Minorca; the E. scoparia, E.viridi-purpurea, E. australis, E. ciliaris, and E. umbellata, fromPortugal, between the years 1768 and 1707. The two other Europeanspecies we possess, the E. stricta, and E. multiflora, natives of Spain,have been but 14 years in cultivation with us; and the African speciesfound within the district of the Cape of Good Hope and the adjacentterritory, which have swelled the Genus to so great an extent, and bythe extreme bril