Flowers from June till October.
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1. The Empalement. 2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. |
The flowers of the Erica argentiflora are of a delicate transparent white, most difficult to imitate on a white ground. Our drawing was made from a plant in the summer of 1814 at the Hammersmith Nursery, where it flowered with abundance of light graceful blossoms, that continued successively from June till October. But the precise time of any of the Ericas flowering is quite indefinite. I have frequently seen many species in full bloom in one collection, and out of flower in others. Where they are indigenous, their periods of inflorescence are no doubt much more determinable than they can ever be in such a versatile clime as Britain, under different modes of culture.[Pg 11]
