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Garden of CanonmiLls Cottage, 



Cyprip. parviflorum. 



arietinum. 



humile. 



venustum. 



insigne. 

 Dendrobium speciosum. 

 jDodecatheon Meadfa 

 flore albo, 



Meadz'a elegans. 

 Dionae^a Muscipula. 

 XJelphinium chinense 



flore albo. 

 Euphorbia aleppica. 



splendens. 

 Epigae^'a repens. 

 Enslenia albida Nuttall. 

 Epidendruni nocturnum. 



ciliare. 



fuscatum. 



10 other species. 

 Fritillaria ruthenica. 



kamtschatense. 

 Gratiola tetragona. 

 Gloriosa siip^rba. 

 Galanthus plicatus. 

 Gentidna verna flore 



albo. 

 Gypsophila sabulosa. 

 Houstonza casrulea. 



«erpyllif61ia. 



purpurea. 

 Hunneman/a /umarise- 



folia 

 /sopjrum ^halictrd- 

 ides. 



Jatropha Mdnihot. 

 Kenn^dia Conipton/aVia 



var. quinquefolia. 

 Zycontice altaica. 

 Lobeh'a odorata. 

 Lycopodiura stolonife- 



rum. 

 Z/ilium tenuifolium. 



philadelphicum. 

 Z,ychnis chalcedonica 



flore pleno 41bo. 

 Dabce^cia (Menzifesia) 



jsoliifolia flore albo. 

 Phyllodoce (Menzifesia) 



^mpetriformis. 



cserulea. 

 Mahonia nervosa. 



fascicularis. 



^tjuifolium. 

 Mantisia saltatoria. 

 Nuttallia pedata, 



digitata. 

 A^'epenthes distillatoria. 

 Ornithogalum aureum. 



caudatum, 

 O'xalis Deppei. 



Bowiei. 



29 more species. 

 Primula sibirica. 



carniolica. 



longiflora. 



glaucescens. 



hirsiita. 



farinosa flore albo. 



pusilla. 



Prim. Columtifff. 



21 other species. 

 Parnassia caroliniana. 



flsarifolia. 



sp. nova, Drum- 

 mond, N. A. 

 Portulaca Gilliesii, 



grandiflora. 

 Potentilla nivea. 



glabra. 



Clusiawa. 

 Ranunculus Thora. 



/umariaefolius. 



] 2 other species. 

 RneWm strfepens. 

 Sarraceni« psittacina, 



adunca. 

 Silene regia. 

 Scutellaria cordata. 



altaica. 

 Schizanthus Grahan)j. 



retusus. 

 Tropse^olum tricoloruni. 

 Thalictrum «nemonoides 



flore pleno. 

 Tacsonia pinnatistipula. 

 Velleia lyrata. 

 riola flabellifolia. 



primulifolia. 



pedata. 

 Wedeh'a aurea. 

 Xylobium squalens. 

 Zephyranthes raes6- 



chloa. 

 Zigadenus glab^rrimus. 



List of Animals kept in the Garden of Canonmilk Cottage. 



Lestris Illiger Cataractes, synon. Zarus C'ataractes L. This gull (the skua) 



is quite tame, and has walked about in the garden, at large, for the last 



seventeen years. 

 A'rdea cinerea L, The heron. The two specimens indicated in the view 



(fig. 44.) have been at large in the garden for the last fourteen years, 

 iarus fuscus L., the brown gull, is quite tame, and goes about with the 



poultry, 

 iarus marinus L., the great black-backed gull, once tamed at Canonmills, 



has revisited the garden every year for the last thirteen years ; remains 



through the winter, and goes off again in the spring. ( See Audubon's Biog, 



of Bii-ds, vol. iii.) 

 Pelecanus Carbo L., the corvorant, or shag, has been tame, and at large in 



the garden, for the last fourteen years. 

 5trix Nyctea L., the snowy owl, sent to Dr. Neill from the Orkney Isles, in 



May, 1835; where it had arrived during a strong north-west gale, with 



flocks of wild flowls, snow-flakes, &c., indicating an Icelandic or Greenland 



origin. (See Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. viii. p. 508.) 

 J'quila ^aliEe^etus, the grey eagle, from the Western Islands, is kept in a 



large eagle-hcuse, where it has been for the last seven years, in good health. 

 Penelope obscura Illiger, syn. P. cuman^nsis L. The yacou. This bird is 



kept in the conservatory. 



