THE CANARY FLOWER. 19 
distinct amongst the fast-growing trellis and bower plants 
that love to climb high and toss gay garlands in the air. 
The canary creeper may be used with effect to clothe low- 
growing trees of spare habit, as it will soon ran up into 
the midst of them and make them gay with golden 
streamers. Care should be taken never to carry this 
sort of gardening too far, because a valueless creeper, that 
lives but a few months at the most, should not be allowed 
to injure a tree that has perhaps a lease of a century to 
honour by protitable oceupation of the ground. 
The plant belore as is a balf-hardy annual, and is 
therefore grown from seeds that are, in the first instance, 
protected from the weather, and alterwards planted out. 
The best way to raise all such plants is to sow the seed 
in the spring on a gentle hotbed in heght, rich, and rather 
fine soil, and when the plants are large enough to handle, 
to prick them out two or three inches apart in boxes filled 
with similar mellow soil, or to pot them separately in 
small pots. In any ease, when thus transferred from the 
seed-pan they snould be nursed under glass for a time in a 
greenhouse or frame, and be gradually hardened by ex- 
posure to the air, to prepare them for planting out. The 
time of sowing and the details of managemeut must, in 
some degree, be determined by the nature of the plant. It 
is not too early to sow seed in February in some cases, but 
in others March and April are early enough. In the case of 
the canary creeper, it is folly to sow before April, because 
the plant grows rapidly when put out, and it is troublesome 
if it grows to some size previously. For filling the seed- 
pans and the boxes in this preliminary culture, a mixture 
of mellow loam, old hotbed dung rotted to powder, equal 
parts, with a half part of silver sand, will answer perfectly. 
