Canncll & Sons’ Complete Seed Gnide. 
OUR SUCCESSES]" VEGETABLE GROWING 
ID TT HRj I UST G- 1893. 
A SILVER KNIGHTIAN MEDAL FOR A COLLECTION OF VEGETABLES 
exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Show, held at the Agricultural 
Hall, September, 1893. 
A SILVER MEDAL FOR A COLLECTION OF VEGETABLES exhibited at 
the Gardening and Forestry Exhibition, Earl’s Court. 
A SILVER-GILT MEDAL FOR A COLLECTION OF VEGETABLES exhibited 
at the Royal Aquarium October Chrysanthemum Show. 
A SILVER MEDAL FOR A COLLECTION OF POTATOES exhibited at the 
Royal Horticultural Society. 
VEGETABLES GROWN AT EYNSFORD. 
k rhe very extensive and interesting collection of vegetables which 
"Messrs Connell and Sous set up both at the Drill Hall on the 2Cth ult. and 
the following duv at Karl's Court deserves more than a passing notice, 
because vegetables have not hitherto been regarded as a Swanley speciality, 
and also because there was no pretence to exhibit these products other than 
as grown under ordinary culture. The Potatoes, Onions, Carrots, Cabbages, 
Cauliflowers. Tomatoes. &c., were excellent. But it may be pleaded that 
cultivation is not everything, and that selection of seed stocks is a matter of 
some importance also. That is a seedsman's view which merits all con- 
sideration and it is one on which, not only Messrs. Cannell and Sons, but 
every other seedsman. is entitled to lay full weight. With very few excep- 
tious the Swanley vegetables did not exhibit any attempt to display mere 
size Only one lot of Onions were unduly large, but the bulk of the 
samples served to show what large, firm, enduring bulbs can be got from 
ordinary culture if the soil be good and the plants well thinned early. Y et, 
whatsoever may be the keeping or non-keeping properties of the giant show 
Onions at least all ordinary grown bulbs should keep remarkably well, for 
seldom have they ripened off earlier or better than this season. I he 
Wroxtons of the Swanley collection averaging G ozs. to 7 ozs. were perfect, 
and better could hardly be conceived. A very interesting dish in the 
collection was Pea Autocrat ; the pods were not large at tins season of the 
year but very full of Peas literally as green ns grass. Its colour is a strong 
point in its favour, and we like Peas to be green when so called, and not 
white as they are so frequently. Not the least value of such a collection of 
vegetables as that referred to .is found in its reliability. The constant 
exhibition of varieties or kinds that have been produced under high- c ass 
conditions of culture naturally misleads, and the 011 -looker as naturally 
observes, “ 1 can never obtain samples like these in my garden; _ but when 
lie turns to a collection of ordinarily grown vegetables, he recognises at once 
their natural characteristics, and is satisfied. I am not at all for assuming 
that ordinary culture signifies poor or inferior culture. That ispot so. By 
ordinary culture I mean cropping under such conditions as that samples most 
suitable for domestic use may be obtained in the greatest abundance and 
with appreciable profit. The whole of the Messrs. Connell's collection was 
grown o'n the Eynsford farm literally under field culture, and under 
conditions less favourable, especially during the recent dry season, than are 
found in ordinary gardens. That fact renders the exhibit all the more 
meritorious, because if good vegetables can be so produced, it should he easy 
for anyone else to have good samples. I have been much surprised to find 
generally how wonderfully good vegetables have been out iu the open or 
field allotments. That is if a reliable ^ed stock is procured, there is a 
good deal of rivalry in these days amongst seedsmen and growers to get the 
best and immense pains are taken to have them. That is good practice, and 
the gardening public get the benefit of it. No firm lias a monopoly m this 
respect, and if I find one gardener believes in one seed house, another has 
implicit faith in a second, so that it is evident all are now putting into 
commerce high-class stocks. 
GARDEN, September 30th, 1893 .— Royal Horticultural Society's Committee Meeting. 
Messrs II Cannell & Sons. Swanley, occupied a large space, showing a collection of Apples and a large varied collection of \ egeta lies. I lie 
best dishes' of' Apples were Colonel Vaughan . Start Queen Hero" A^CrX 
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GARDEN, September 30th, 1893,— Earl's Coutt Fruit and Vegetable Shpw. 
Messrs. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, were awarded a Silver Medal for l'’ruit and V egetables. 
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GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE, September 30th, 1893.— Royal Horticultural Society's Committee Meeting. 
Messrs II Cannell & Sons, Swanley and Evnsford, exhibited a large collection of Apples, which showed how well-suited their nurseries a 
Eynsford are for this fruit,. The examples were throughout above the average in size and very highly coloured. Even more noteworthy wei 
tlieir collection of Potatoes and miscellaneous Vegetables, for they were alike remarkable for their high quality, the cultural skill that had 
brought to hear upon them, and the taste with which they were arranged. Conspicuous among the 1 otatoes were Eynsford Mammn.h a large . 
variety dWar inTLth a heavy cropper, and of excellent quality \ Field Marshal, a red kidney, much brighter ,n colour ha, , others of its class; 
good cropper Altogether the collection did much credit to the firm, and added materially to the attractions of the meeting (Silver Kmgh ,an Medal . 
8 kIul’s Court Kkuit and Veqetahle Snow.-Messrs. II. Cannell & Sons had an excellent collection of Vegetables and bruit, a Silver 
GARDENERS' MAGAZINE, October 14th, 1893.— National Chrysanthemum Society. 
Messrs H. Cannell & Sons had an interesting collection of Potatoes, Onions, Carrots, Marrow's, Turnips, Leeks, Beans, Musirooms, am 
Artichokes’, &c., the result of good full culture, and also a collection of Apples and Pears. Silver-Gilt Medal was awarded. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE, Royal Aquarium, October 12th. 1893. I 
Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, staged a collection of Apples and a splendid collection of Vegetables. A Silver-Gilt J\ e a awar 
THE GARDENING WORLD. — National Cnrysanthemum Society, October 14M, 1893. , 
Messrs H. Cannell & Sons had a large and iustructive collection of Potatoes of wonderful size— Onions, Brussels Sprouts, Cauliflowers, i 5 
other vegetables— as well as a collection of Apples. A Silver-Gilt Medal awarded. ——A 
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