annell & Sons’ Complete Seed Guide. 
A GLOSSARY OR EXPLANATION OF THE BACK OF COVER OF OUR CATALOGUE. 
] . First, on the top is our name. From the flattering expressions of joy 
and satisfaction received from the numerous visitors to our Nurseries (many 
from the most remote and distant parts of the world) for what we have 
sent them for many years, we have good evidence that our name and 
reputation stands high in the estimation of people, and our yearly increase 
besides proves it is so; and if we venturo to take advantage of personal 
expressions as those undermentioned, which is of course gratifying to hear, 
that must be our excuse for repeating them. 
“ Mr. Cannell, you make my garden and house like dear old England.” 
“Mr. Cannell, you are in reality the world’s comforter.” 
“ Mr. Cannell, I lost a lot of money and vexation in getting seeds and 
plants until I heard of your firm.” 
“I don’t mind going back to Australia now that I know I shall be 
able to get all I want from yon and receive your catalogue.” 
Such are the expressions often heard. 
2. F.R. H.S., *H.M.C.A.B., M.S.A. H. Cannell, Sen., has been for 
many years one of the most active Two Guinea Fellows of the Royal 
Horticultural Society— many years acting on committee. Here we have 
every opportunity of seeing, examining, and discussing with the best 
authorities all the new and rare plants, fruits, vegetables, and appliances 
from all parts of the world immediately they are exhibited. 
•Hill.C.A.B. (Honorary Member of the Ccrcle d’Arboriculture 
of Belgium).— This honour 
was conferred after the Society visited this country in 1883, making our establishment 
their first great sight. 
2. He is also a Two Guinea Member of the Society of Arts, where 
all designing, instruments, and papers of the highest scientific information 
are read and discussed before the most learned men in the world, which 
gives us splendid opportunities on most valuable questions of the day, 
especially that alluding to horticulture. 
4. We might also mention our name is entered in the record of 
valuable inventions and discoveries at the British Musenm, as having 
introduced the system of top heating, which has proved the highest 
advantage to mankind. 
5. Golden Seeds. — The great success of having grown all sorts of seeds 
ill the warmest and most sunny spot and best adapted soil in England, has 
proved an immense advantage to the entire world ; and this invaluable 
discovery has already, and will more and more as years roll on, become of 
the highest possible importance. Seeds that we used to think could only 
be grown good in foreign parts, we now put them to the severest test when 
placed side by side with our “Perfect Seeds,” so much so that, as large 
as our plaut orders are, our seed orders, by force of real quality, are the 
largest now. 
(i. Rising Sun. This indicates that we are favoured with more sun, 
and, of course, heat and light, that gives riches and life, which is necessary 
for all crops— thus seeds of the highest colour and plumpness ; and further, 
they not only possess a golden gloss, which indicates the highest quality, but 
they afterwards bring gold to the sower, and afterwards a lar^e order 
hence the Golden Seeds. 
7. “Perfect Seeds” is also our registered trade mark, the force and 
weight of so many testimonials eulogising our own grown seeds. Sending 
thorn direct from our fields to the sower at a cheap rate, and of a superior 
quality, forced us, as it were, to protect this, what was formerly thought 
almost an impossible title ; but the many thousands of proofs have more 
than justified this assertion, for many have said that our seeds have proved 
it by their magnificent results all over the world. 
8. Our first trade mark, “ Forget-me-not,” will be found on one side. 
This has brought smiles and pleasure to many hundreds of lovers, and the 
dearest friends have enclosed it, when corresponding, to show its value. 
We have been offered £100 for its use, and, of course, refused with thanks. 
We have no doubt young people will long continue to use it, and may it 
bring them much joy. 
9- The Spade — nil desperandum . — Call a spade a spade and dig deeply 
with it, not only into the soil, but the same with everything you wish to do 
well in the garden, and, above all, never despair. 
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JUS ofArt^ !!nd^ScieitrRros A s«k EI in’r th c e he v 0f ‘ft ) ve!1 ' k ? <,wn Swan ley firm, has been awarded a Gold Medal and the First-Class Diploma of the Academv 
of Art and Science, Brussels, m recognition of his services to horticulture. Mr. Cannell has also been made an honorary member 1 of the institution. ' 
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IT IS VERY NECESSARY YOU SHOULD SEE THIS. 
OUR ASTER FIELD. 
O give an idea of the extent of our seed 
ied from the Continent, and 
Ihc last three years all, or nearly all, the seeds are of our own growing. The following report will go far to prove our assertions as 
Reprinted from the GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
• „ . , .. „ growing— particularly Asters — which do so wonderfully well, yielding seed ermnl to wh.it iv 
usually supplied from the Continent, and which we guarantee to give more than satisfaction. We have hundred of testimonials praDing 
onr Asters, 
being correct: — 
OUR SEED FARM. 
! a some ' vhat ; 1ream y air at a few Asters in pots, sent np from Chiswick to the James Street Drill Hall the other day, Mr II Cannell 
V£> |E t n TtiV e T r r e d , that i 16 ha V « rand lot just then in bloom at Eynsford, and invited me to go and see them. The invitation wL too 
slones southwards*?. b ?l de ^ lned ’ and accordingly a few days later I found myself with my energetic host standing out on the side of the hill which 
of ?he th E J“ ord . v ; a,lc >-’ looking upon what can be truly described the finest shows of Asters I have seen. As under the force 
Pos.Me P tn r? ?se? rong "’ n .' d ’ t the ( ™h masses 0 f coloured flowers surged to and fro, sometimes in broad sunlight, sometimes in shade, it was not 
of f % wan " tnbute admiration for a most beautiful as well as brilliant floral spectacle. There are large breadths of Quilled of Victoria 
mm ,F° mp0n f Em ’ ,eror ' and other sections in mixed colours, and very beautiful they are, because of the bizarre colouring founThi’ 
marking Tint forms ° T markings thus interspersed ; still further, the mixtures are of special interest, because these include some linos or 
the hiJ’hWL- ( * 111 se J ecte , ( ^ flours, anc ® ^ ms Ornish the ground-work of further selections of special merit. Still, the best effects are found in 
flowered snemet* mas f? 8 of col ° ur ’ winch hundreds of plants, all of one hue, produce. Because rather the earliest perhaps, the Pajony or incurred 
KloTf OI ? s d unde? the 1 . h< j f t,me of inspection, to be the most brilliant, because the most fully in bloom; and some of the colours 7 were i?dled 
exposed breezy hillside? 8 ?? ti° te fl lnR ’ ln fac ^’ as .. t0 almost beggar description. Although growing, as it were, under field culture, and out on the 
pSly blooming ’ ' fl ° WerS are ln a11 cases of s P lendid quality. X have never seen better under ordinary cnltu,;, or plants more 
the W bTug H fei|& A ^e U « ^/^^°^D With ° nt d °" bt be in the P r ° dudti0n ° f b °me-raised seed wi h very fine strains, 
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