. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 2.— Erica cinerea, or Bell Heather. 1. Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris (Ling), Fig. 1.—A low, straggling shrub, seldom growing more than a foot high. Leaves very small and short. Flowers small, H^l. and of a purplish pink colour, often pale approaching to white. Erica vulgaris is the most widely - distri- buted of all the heaths and very abundant. 2. Erica cinerea (Scotch heath)Fig. 2.—More bushy and fuller than Erica vulgaris, leaves finer and more pointed, usually three in a whorl, with clusters of small leaves in their nails. Flowers a
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Fig. 2.— Erica cinerea, or Bell Heather. 1. Erica, or Calluna, vulgaris (Ling), Fig. 1.—A low, straggling shrub, seldom growing more than a foot high. Leaves very small and short. Flowers small, H^l. and of a purplish pink colour, often pale approaching to white. Erica vulgaris is the most widely - distri- buted of all the heaths and very abundant. 2. Erica cinerea (Scotch heath)Fig. 2.—More bushy and fuller than Erica vulgaris, leaves finer and more pointed, usually three in a whorl, with clusters of small leaves in their nails. Flowers a reddish purple, in twice terminal ra- cemes. Covering immense tracts of country on the Scotch, Irish, Welsh, and some of the Western English moors. 3. Erica tetralix (Cross - leaved Heath) Fig. 3.— Generally lower than E. cinerea, bushy at base; short, erect flower- ingbunches, leaves in form shorter and less pointed than in preceding. Flowers rather larger and more pink in colour, forming little terminal clusters or close umbels. Ranges all over Britain, and very common in the West. By preserving these illustrations, readers will be enabled to distinguish between the several heathers by com- paring a sprig of bloom with the cuts. Elevation and soil, however, has appa- rently much to do with the quality of heather honey, that from the Scottish Highlands being undoubtedly ,*SsP 1'ig. 3.—Erica tctralix. HONEY IMPORTS. The total value of honey imported into the United Kingdom during the month of August, 1896, was £2,412.—From a return famished to the British Bee Journal by the Statistical Office, Customs, September 7, 1896. MID-LOTHIAN The hall of the Cowan Institute, Peni" cuik, was on the 22nd ult. a scene of much attraction, the occasion being a triple exhibi- tion by societies devoted to horticulture or the kindred study of bee-culture. The Peni- cuik Horticultural Society, bearing lightly its fifty odd yeaizs of existence, held its own ann
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