Scotland Puzzle

Heather

By Kay Glasgow

The thistle is the flower of Scotland but heather may be welcome in more gardens. The botanical name for Scottish heather or ling is Calluna vulgaris. But there is also heath, Erica, botanically speaking. Calluna and Erica are both known as heathers so are Daboecia and Andromeda. Confused yet? Here's my tip: erica and heath have 5 letters, calluna and heather each has 7. Enjoy the Hielan heather in the anagrams. For a virtual moor, The Heather Society site, http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/heather/index.html is always abloom.

1 an early bloomer heath, Erica cinerea (4,7) HEAL BLETHER

2 this is the lucky one of Scottish folklore (5,7) HEAT HE WITHER

3 rope made of heather discovered at this Neolithic site (5,4) BAR SEA ARK

4 a prehistoric brew in Robert Louis Stevenson poem (7,3) AH ETHEREAL

5 heather sprigs under the pillow are the cure for this AS MINION

6 it's overtaking the heather in some areas CRANK BE

7 Erica tetralix, cross-leaved heather's water loving name (3,7) HEAR THE GOB

8 moors are burned to keep this game bird in tender heather shoots (3,6) RUDE GORSE

9 "...if I did not see the heather, at least once a year, I think I should die!" (3,6,5) CLARET ITS WORST

10 from the sweet nectar of the moor in bloom (7,5) HATH HE YEN O'ER

11 garden heathers prefer acid soil and a mulch of __ __ (4,4) TAM POSES

12 use a pair of these to prune wooly heathers each year (5,6) SPREE SHE HAS

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1	an early bloomer heath, Erica cinerea (4,7)	HEAL BLETHER
2	this is the lucky one of Scottish folklore (5,7)	HEAT HE WITHER
3	rope made of heather discovered at this Neolithic site (5,4)	BAR SEA ARK
4	a prehistoric brew in Robert Louis Stevenson poem (7,3)	AH ETHEREAL
5	heather sprigs under the pillow are the cure for this	AS MINION
6	it's overtaking the heather in some areas	CRANK BE
7	Erica tetralix, cross-leaved heather's water loving name (3,7)	HEAR THE GOB
8	moors are burned to keep this game bird in tender heather shoots (3,6)	RUDE GORSE
9	"...if I did not see the heather, at least once a year, I think I should die!" (3,6,5)	CLARET ITS WORST
10	from the sweet nectar of the moor in bloom (7,5)	HATH HE YEN O'ER
11	garden heathers prefer acid soil and a mulch of __ __ (4,4)	TAM POSES
12	use a pair of these to prune wooly heathers each year (5,6)	SPREE SHE HAS