[Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookMadam How and Lady Why CHAPTER XI--THE WORLD'S END 23/34
Must it not? Oh yes, I see. Now then--The farther you go south-west, towards Spain, the more kinds of heath there are, and the handsomer; as if their original home, from which they started, was somewhere down there. More sorts! What sorts? How many sorts of heath have we at home? Three, of course: ling, and purple heath, and bottle heath. And there are no more in all England, or Wales, or Scotland, except--Now, listen.
In the very farthest end of Cornwall there are two more sorts, the Cornish heath and the Orange-bell; and they say (though I never saw it) that the Orange-bell grows near Bournemouth. Well.
That is south and west too. So it is: but that makes five heaths.
Now in the south and west of Ireland all these five heaths grow, and two more: the great Irish heath, with purple bells, and the Mediterranean heath, which flowers in spring. Oh, I know them.
They grow in the Rhododendron beds at home. Of course.
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