By Richard Anthony Salisbury, Esq. 275 



CANNES. 

 Sect. 1. 



Canna Flaccida. Ait. in Hort. Kew. 2. ed. v. 1. p. 2. 

 — Stirp. Rar. p. 3. t. 3. — Decand. in PL Lil. n. 107. cum Ic. 

 bond. 



From a specimen of this plant, gathered at Orford, in 

 Lancashire, in 1778, it probably was introduced by John 

 Blackburn, Esq. It is seldom seen in the collections 

 near London, requiring, like the Canna glauca, a good deal 

 of moisture. They both used to ripen seeds every year at 

 Chapel Allerton, where they were cultivated in large pots, 

 plunged half way up in a tub of water, which stood in a 

 glass frame, but had no fire-heat, except in exceedingly 

 severe frost. 



Thalia Dealbata. Ait. in Hort. Kew. v. I. p. S. — Fra- 

 ser's Ic. 



A most beautiful aquatic, and introduced earlier than is 

 supposed ; for I examined it in the collection of Alexander, 

 then Lord Loughborough, at Woburn Farm, in Surrey, in 

 1786: he purchased it of Mr. John Cree. Neither is it 

 very tender, as it flowers every summer in the ponds of many 

 gardens near London, especially at James Brog den's, Esq. 

 Clapham, where it ripens fruit, and is more luxuriant than I 

 have ever seen it ; so that it might probably be naturalised 

 in such of our waters as are so deep in winter, that the frost 

 could not penetrate to its roots. 



Maranta Arundinacea. Ait. in Hort. Kew. 2. ed. v. 1 



