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  • Two canaries feeding their young in a basket. Coloured etching.
  • Monument Peruvian du Canar
  • The standard approved on by the Society for the Shew of Canary Birds.
  • Two canary birds (finches) sitting on tree branches. Coloured etching.
  • Interieur de la Maison de l'inca au Canar
  • Canary creeper (Tropaeolum peregrinum): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1879, after F. Hulme.
  • Spiraea cana: flowering stem with root and separate floral segments. Coloured etching after J. Schütz, c.1802.
  • Cedronella canariensis (L.)Webb & Berthel. Basionym Dracocephalum canariense. Lamiaceae. Canary balm, Balm-of-Gilead, Canary Island tea. It smells slightly resinous of cedar, hence the diminutive name Cedronella. Perennial herb. Distribution: Canary Islands. True Balm-of-Gilead is the sap of the poplar, Populus candicans. It was drunk as a tea, and the aroma was believed to relieve colds. No medicinal use. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • People gathering water at the fountain at Cana, Israel. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1842.
  • Jesus calls the fishermen to be his apostles; in the background he performs the miracle at Cana. Woodcut.