THE CANAKY 

 FLOWEK. 



Tropceolum canariense. 

 HIS remarkably pretty creeper is 

 > known in gardens as Tropaolttm 

 canariense, but its recognised 

 botanical name is T. aduncum, 

 or, in the older books, T. 

 peregrinum. The first and 

 commonest name suggests that 

 it is a native of the Canary 

 Islands, and it may indeed have 

 come to us from thence, but 

 its home as a wilding is New 

 Granada. The yellow colour 

 may justify the name, for not 



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but canary wine is or a golden 



hue ; and as the Canary Islands 

 were the " Fortunate Isles " of 

 the ancients, we may suppose 

 them to be as Dick Whittington expected to find 

 London streets paved with gold. Strange to say, if 

 the case is considered philologically, a Canary Isle is an 

 Isle of Dogs, for Juba so named one of the group 

 because of the large canine animals he found there, as 

 he named another of them Nivaria, the Snow Island, 

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