. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 120 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. large, tubular, upwards of an inch long; tubes red- dish-pink, with a very dark band round the neck; limb spreading, white. May to July. E. McNahiana rosea.—In growth this very desir- able variety differs from the preceding in the more recirrved leaves; the flowers also are much longer and larger; tubes rich dark rose, with a band of deep blackish-purple round the neck; limb spread- ing, white. Its normal flowering season is May to July; it occasionally, how- ever, blooms again in the autumn. E. mammosa major. — A stron
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 120 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. large, tubular, upwards of an inch long; tubes red- dish-pink, with a very dark band round the neck; limb spreading, white. May to July. E. McNahiana rosea.—In growth this very desir- able variety differs from the preceding in the more recirrved leaves; the flowers also are much longer and larger; tubes rich dark rose, with a band of deep blackish-purple round the neck; limb spread- ing, white. Its normal flowering season is May to July; it occasionally, how- ever, blooms again in the autumn. E. mammosa major. — A strong erect-growing plant, producing large whorls of long, drooping, tubular flowers, which are deep red- dish-purple in colour ; a very showy and useful variety. July to November. E. Massonii major.—Named in honour of the introducer of so many Cape Heaths. It is, perhaps, the grandest and most stately of the whole genus, and, at the same time, the most difiicult to keep in g-ood condition. It is a slow- growing plant, but very free- branching. The leaves are closely set, and densely clothed with woolly hairs; these absorb the moisture if it should get wet, and this leads to mildew, and turns them a reddish-brown, causing the plant to present a very patchy and imsightly appear- ance. When carefully at- tended to, however, the plant is very handsome either in or out of flower. The flowers are tubular, upwards of an inch long, disposed in large terminal whorls, deep fiery-red; limb olive-green and yellow. June to August. E. MarnocJdana.—The flowers of this very hand- some variety are entirely destitute of the viscid gum with which nearly all the blooms of the hard- wooded Heaths are coated, so that neither dust nor insects can find a lodgment upon them, which is a great advantage. Flowers large, tubular, inflated at the base; tubes rich purplish-crimson, with a darker band round the neck; limb white. July to September. E. mutaUIis.—A slender-growing plant, which may with pr
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