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Definition of Cornish heath
1. Noun. Bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornish Heath
Literary usage of Cornish heath
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia of Geography: Comprising a Complete Description of the by Hugh Murray, William Wallace, Robert Jameson, William Jackson Hooker, William Swainson, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1837)
"Cornish heath. Ciliated Heath. some very remote period. ... The Erica vagans, or
Cornish heath (Jig. 108. а), ¡в found nowhere in Britain except Cornwall ..."
2. Notes from a Diary, 1873-1881 by Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1898)
"I saw once more the graves of the English officers on the outside of the castle
rock, but could not find the Cornish heath, which I first saw in 1857 ..."
3. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"F. VAGANS (Cornish heath") is a vigorous bush Heath thriving in almost any soil,
... Somewhat like a white Cornish heath but dwarf and close-set ; flowers, ..."
4. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"E. VAGANS (Cornish heath) is a vigorous bush Heath thriving in almost any soil,
... Somewhat like a white Cornish heath but dwarf and close-set; flowers, ..."
5. Trees & Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook (1908)
"E. vagans (Cornish heath).—This Heath is one of the most useful of dwarf ...
This belongs to the same type of Heath as E. vagans, the Cornish heath, ..."
6. The Intellectual Observer (1866)
"These moorlands are covered with heath; the Cornish heath, Erica vaf/ans, ...
The flowers of the Cornish heath are either red, white, or light purple. ..."
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