 This plant, but little regarded in happier climates, is made subservient to a great variety of purposes, in the bleak and barren Highlands of Scotland. The poorer inhabitants make walls for their cottages, with alternate layers of heath, and a kind of...  A floral guide for east Kent - Page 25by Matthew Henry Cowell - 1839 - 98 pagesFull view - About this book
 | agriculture, planting - 1786 - 554 pages
...valuable purpofes. In the Highlands of Scotland, the poor inhabitants make walls for their cottages with alternate layers of heath, and a, kind of mortar made of black earth and ftraw. They alfo make beds of itj and their houfes are thatched with it. In the ifle of Hay, ale is... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...made fubfervient to a great variety of purpofes. The poorer inhabiiants make walls for their cottages with alternate layers of heath and a kind of mortar made of black earth and ftraw. The woody roots of the heath are placed in the centre ; the tops exterruilly and internally.... | |
 | William Withering - Botany - 1801 - 476 pages
...in the bleak and barren Highlands of Scotland. The poorer inhabitants make walls for their cottages, with alternate layers of heath, and a kind of mortar made of black earth and straw, the woody roots of the heath being placed in the centre, the tops externally and internally. They make... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - 1807 - 226 pages
...of Scotland it is of extensive use ; the poor cottagers make the walls of their wretched cabins of alternate layers of Heath, and a kind of mortar made of black earth mixed with straw, and (he roofs are thatched with it. So destitute of domestic comforts are these poor... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 816 pages
...in the bleak and barren highlands of Scotland. The poorer inhabitants make walls for their cottages, with alternate layers of heath, and a kind of mortar 'made of black earth and Itraw, the woody roots of the heath being placed in the centre, the tops externally and internally.... | |
 | William Withering - Botany - 1812 - 950 pages
...in the bleak and barren Ht^l*"11 Scotland. The poorer inhabitants make walls for their eottafM, « alternate layers of Heath, and a kind of mortar made of black aA ' straw, I In- woody roots of the Heath being placed in the centre, '• rxternally and internally.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 888 pages
...the bleak and barren highlands of Scotland. The poorer inhabitauts make wall* •for their cottages, with alternate layers of heath, and a kind of mortar made of black earth and straw, the woody roots of the heath being placed in the centre, the tops externally and internally. They make... | |
 | George Sinclair - Forage plants - 1826 - 596 pages
...a reddish colour. In the Highlands of Scotland the poorer inhabitants make walls for their cottages with alternate layers of heath, and a kind of mortar made of black earth and straw ; the woody parts of the heath being placed in the centre, and the tops externally and internally.... | |
 | S. Waring - Botany - 1827 - 122 pages
...in the bleak and barren highlands of Scotland. The poorer inhabitants make walls for their cottages with alternate layers of heath, and a kind of mortar made of black earth and straw; the woody roots of the heath being placed in the centre, the tops internally and externally. They make... | |
 | Botany - 1830 - 632 pages
...bleak and barren Highlands of Scotland. The poorer inhabitants construct walls for their cottages, wilh alternate layers of Heath, and a kind of mortar, made of black earth and straw, the woody roots of the Heatb being plated in the centre, the tups externally and internally. They also... | |
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