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Definition of Heaths
1. heath [n] - See also: heath
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heaths
Literary usage of Heaths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1847)
"heaths are all of them especial favorites of mine, and wherever I have had
opportunity, I have paid considerable attention to their cultivation, ..."
2. Travels, During the Years 1787, 1788, and 1789: Undertaken More Particularly by Arthur Young (1792)
"Improvements, on the heaths of Bourdeaux, that is, ... this, on the heaths
above-mentioned, would be trebled, though the landlords gained nothing. ..."
3. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by W. (William) Baxter by W. (William) Baxter (1840)
"Belton, and Gorleston heaths: Mr. Vr'ioo. ... which flourishes on the driest
sandy heaths, where few others would live, and at a season when Mosses and ..."
4. Hortus Kewensis; Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1811)
"'s heaths, vol. 3. /«^-orf. 1800, by George Hibbert; Esq. Afe. of the ...
Andrews's heaths', vol. 3i Lucid Heath. Nut. of the Cape of Good Hope: Introd. ..."
5. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1902)
"... rough pastures, waste places, heaths, bogs, and even the low-lying fens and
coast sandhills. It occurs on the chalk-hills at Cuxton and Folkestone, ..."
6. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"But very many people do not know how happy these heaths are as garden plants,
... In such places the native heaths of Surrey and Hampshire sow themselves, ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Only a few of the European heaths are hardy in America, and we have no native
heaths at all in this hemisphere. Of about 14 kinds of Erica grown outdoors in ..."
8. The English Flower Garden: Design, Arrangement and Plans Followed by a by William Robinson (1895)
"But veiy many people do not know how happy these heaths are as garden plants,
... In such places the native heaths of Surrey and Hampshire sow themselves, ..."