. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE CANARY FLOWEE. IIIS reiiKU'kalily pretty C'ree])er is known in gardens as Tntjucoliiiii ^ cuiiiirii'iiKC, Ijut its recognised Ijotanieal name is T. adiiiiciim, or, in the older books, 7'. pi'rei/n II Hill. Tlie lirst and comnionest name sugg'csts that it is :x native of the Canary Islands, and it may indeed liave come to us from thenee, Ijiit its home as a wilding- is New (h-anada. The yellow colonr may justify the name, for not oidy is the canary-liird yellow^, bnt canary wine is of a L;(ilden line ; and as the Canary
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE CANARY FLOWEE. IIIS reiiKU'kalily pretty C'ree])er is known in gardens as Tntjucoliiiii ^ cuiiiirii'iiKC, Ijut its recognised Ijotanieal name is T. adiiiiciim, or, in the older books, 7'. pi'rei/n II Hill. Tlie lirst and comnionest name sugg'csts that it is :x native of the Canary Islands, and it may indeed liave come to us from thenee, Ijiit its home as a wilding- is New (h-anada. The yellow colonr may justify the name, for not oidy is the canary-liird yellow^, bnt canary wine is of a L;(ilden line ; and as the Canary Islands were the "Fortunate Isles" of the ancients, we may supjiose Whittington expected to lind 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 grouji because of the large canine animals he found there, as he named another of them Nivaria, the Snow^ Island, C tliem to be—as Dick. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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