CANARY CREEPER. 



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CANNA. 



for their close, compact habit. Of the 

 tall-growing hardy perennials Campanula 

 pryramidalis grown in pots, placed about 

 terraces, gravel walks, or the margins of 

 lawns, produces a most striking effect. 

 Of the dwarf varieties, also hardy pe- 

 rennials, C. Carfatica is a most valuable 

 bedding plant, and C. fragilis a beautiful 

 trailer for rock-work and baskets. Cam- 

 panulas well deserve a prominent place in 

 every garden. 



Canary Creeper. 



It is the custom with many to regard 

 the Canary Creeper, as Tiopaolum Cana- 

 riense is familiarly called, as a plant 

 which must of necessity be raised and 

 spend its early days in warmth, and there- 

 fore to buy plants in pots for planting out. 

 These seeds may be sown at the end of 

 March, or in April, with every prospect of 

 success, in the open air, and not of 

 necessity in a south aspect. Indeed, 

 this creeper, generally considered so 

 delicate and difficult of culture without 

 heat in its preliminary stage, has been 

 known to grow with the utmost luxuriance 

 in a shady northern aspect never touched 

 by the sun except in early morning and 

 at eventide, and more than this, seeds 

 from the creeper have dropped on the 

 soil, been buried in it, and germinated 

 and grown the following year with all the 

 luxuriance of the parent plant by which 

 they were produced. In fact, they grew 

 so strongly and in such numbers, that the 

 bigger ones strangled the small fry, and 

 they went to the wall, and not to the trellis 

 of the porch of the house, recessed between 

 two square bays, up which the strong 

 plants climbed, to let drop festoons of 

 light green palmate leaves, flecked here 

 and there with crested blooms of brilliant 

 yellow. The moral of all this is : Sow 

 the seeds of this plant as you would those 

 of the ordinary Tropaeolum, but if you 



must raise them in pots, be content with 

 placing the pots in a sunny window, and 

 as soon as the young plants appear above 

 the soil, give them all the air you can from 

 day to day to strengthen! them before you 

 turn them out into the open air altogether. 



Candytuft (nat. ord. Cruci'ferse). 



The candytuft, or Iberis, as it is also 

 called, springs up readily from seed sown 

 in any light rich soil. Autumn is the best 

 time for sowing. 



The improved varieties of this favourite 

 flower now offered by florists and seeds- 



CANDVTUFT (DWARF VARIETY). 



men are exceedingly beautiful, and it may 

 be questioned if any more effective annuals 

 can be selected for a rich crimson purple 

 colour or pure white ; they succeed in any 

 soil. For the names of varieties the 

 reader should consult the lists of the large 

 growers. 



Can'na or Indian Shot (nat. ord. 



Maranta'ceas). 



For the adornment of the conservatory, 

 drawing-room, or flower-garden, these 

 magnificent greenhouse herbaceous pe- 

 rennials are unrivalled ; their stately 

 growth, combined with their rich and 

 various-coloured flowers, and picturesque 

 and beautiful foliage, render them the 

 most strikingly effective of ornamental 

 plants. When intermixed with other 

 plants, or dispersed in pots about ter- 

 races, gravel walks, or on the margins 

 of lawns or lakes, they impart quite an 



