ON THE CANARY CREEPER 43 



formed what is, I tell him that the botanists have made 

 two attempts, the one being aduncum (reference to the 

 basal hook) and the other peregrinum, or wandering. 

 The former is now the accepted botanical name. 



The Canary Creeper is certainly a peregrinating plant. 

 It loves to ramble, peering here and there. It enjoys 

 sprawling along a rustic fence, climbing a trellis, and 

 creeping up an old bole. The one thing that it does 

 not like is tiresome restriction, and it looks least happy 

 when it is led on a piece of string, like a slum urchin's 

 flea-bitten and doleful-looking dog. One may plant it 

 at the front of window-boxes and large tubs, allowing it 

 to droop over ; it is not so vigorous as usual when so 

 treated, much preferring to climb, but it looks bright. 

 A more humane way of using it in a window-box is to 

 press the ends of a bamboo rod in the ends of the box, 

 thus forming a bow or arch over it, and let the plant 

 ramble over that. 



Sowing. It is a charming plant for one of the pillars of 

 a pergola, or the rustic work often employed in summer- 

 houses. If the basal position is shaded part of the day, 

 all the better, because it likes to have its roots in cool, 

 moist soil. But so far as the shoots are concerned, the 

 more sunshine that falls on the long gay streamers the 

 more cheerful the plant looks. It is classed as a half 

 hardy annual, and the plants in this section are generally 

 raised under glass in March or April, and planted out 

 in May or June. The angular, purplish seeds may be 

 put three inches apart and an inch deep in a shallow 

 box of soil, and placed in an unheated frame. Some 

 twigs should be put among the plants if they cannot be 

 planted out by the time they are four inches high, other- 

 wise they may cling round each other and be difficult to 

 separate. 



