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THE German word “heide,” like the English “heath,” is applied to very different types of vegetation. In the narrowest acceptation it signifies a district covered with dwarf shrubs where ling or heather predominates, and such a formation is not uncommonly associated with loose, sandy soil. But in north Germany “heide” implies a wood, usually a pine wood, and the same conception attaches to it in other parts of Germany, as, for instance, the Dresdener Heide. Heath is therefore not a formation according. to the ecological use of the word, but is applied to land where certain physical conditions prevail, and covers not only stretches of open woodland, but also grass and other moors, and may even be extended to peats and bogs. One feature common to these different formations is the presence of humus, and this is included in the definition given by Ramann.
Handbuch der Heidekultur.
By Dr. P. Graebner. Pp. viii + 296. (Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1904.) Price 9s. net.
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Handbuch der Heidekultur . Nature 72, 173 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/072173a0
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