THE CANARY 
FLOWER. 
Tropeolin canariense. 
HIS remarkably pretty creeper is 
~ known in gardens as Propeolum 
botanical name is 2. ad/aneum, 
or, in the older books, 7. 
~ peregrine, 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 
only is the canary-hird yellow, 
but canary wine is of 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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