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Canary Birp FLower.—Tropeolum peregrinum, or 1duncum; some- 
times also called T. canariensis, though wrongly, as it is a native of Peru. 
This plant is generally considered a half-hardy annual, but it is found to 
grow without any hotbed, if the seeds are sown as soon as ripe in pots, 
and kept ina room during winter. The young plants should be regularly 
watered, and trained to a stick or frame till spring, when they should be 
planted out. They will then grow and flower luxutiantly, producing a 
succession of blossoms, till the plants are destroyed by frost. 
CuarcoaL.—It was mentioned under this head that cuttings had been 
struck in charcoal in Germany ; but I was surprised to find, during a late 
tour in Devonshire, that all kinds of plants will grow in charcoal better 
than in any thing else. At Bicton, near Sidmouth, the seat of Lady 
Rolle, Bananas, and other stove plants, are grown of a most extraordinary 
size and vigour, by the use of charcoal mixed with loam ; > whole being 
put loosely into the pots, without breaking the compost into small particles. 
Under this treatment, Bananas, only two years old, grow to a very large 
size and bear fruit. Greenhouse and hardy plants are grown in the same 
manner, and with similar success. 
Ecuites.—Two new species of this genus, resembling in shape E. 
suberecta, have been flowered in the stove of Messrs. Veitch and Son, 
Exeter. One of these new species has flowers of a beautiful rose colour, 
and the other has dark crimson flowers. 
Fucusta.—The Port Famine Fuchsia (F. discolor), though quite hardy 
in the north of Scotland, will not stand well near London, as it is much 
injured by smoke. 
Heatus are grown at Bicton in a mixture of charcoal and sandy peat, 
aud a great number of pebbles are mixed with the soil in each pot, so 
as to keep the whole of the earth open. Mr. M‘Nab, in Edinburgh, 
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