H. CANNELL & SONS’ AUTUMN CATALOGUE. 
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Journal of Horticulture, June 20th, 1895. 
I have tried Royal Sovereign in the open quarter of the kitchen gardeD, it has proved to be hardy, 
eaily, and very fruitful, weak plants carrying a heavy crop of large fruit of good colour and excellent 
flavour. Many of the fruits from one-year-old plants weighed over 2ozs., the first of which were 
ripe on the 10th inst. As showing its earliness other varieties grown on the same quarter 
were : Pres : dent, Sir Joseph Paxton, Auguste Nicaise, Lord Suffield, Gunton Park, Yicomtesse 
H. de Thury, and several other varieties, but the latter is the only variety that has com- 
menced to 'colour. I predict a great future’ for this variety, as it has earliness, size and 
quality to recommend it, ‘The flesh being solid and firm it will travel well, and 1 realised 
2s. per lb. for fruit of this kind in the open market, although other varieties were coming 
iu somewhat freely front the South and were beiDg sold at 6 d. per lb., a fact that should 
be made a note of by market growers.— Geo. Summers, Gardener to the Karl of Scarborough, 
Sandbeck Park, Yorks, 
From the Journal of Horticulture, June 29th, 1895. 
Mr. G. R. Ai,lis says: — We gathered three or four days earlier from Royal Sovereign than 
from Noble under exactly the same conditions. I consider the former the best early Strawberry 
that has yet come under my notice. So far as 1 can judge, when better known it will be 
largely grown by market growers. The fruit is very firm, and will no doubt travel well. I 
advise all lovers of a good early Strawberry, who do not possess Royal Sovereign, to lose no 
time in securing a good stock. 
Mr. W. J. Murphy, Clonmel, says: — I have at least twenty varieties, and Royal Sovereign 
is by far the best. It is very little behind Noble and as early as Sensation, but of better quality 
than either, and doubly prolific. The first week in Tune, mine, in the open and without any 
particular care, were fit to pick. Other varieties give a few good betries, but Royal Sovereign 
promises to have successive pickings equally good. 
The Garden, 22nd June, 1895, says: 
The fruit of Royal Sovereign is enormous, altogether too big for a pretty mouth. 
To show the satisfaction out* Plants give : — 
22nd June, 1895. 
Mrs. Parsons, Richmond House, Clonmel : -I am surprised and delighted with the Royal 
Sovereign Strawberry plants you sent me only two months ago ; they have done marvellously. 
I send you fiuit to show the astonishing progress they have made in so shoit a time — they are 
like two-year-old plants. 
The Gardeners' Chronicle, June 29th, 1895, 
Says :— Messrs. Cannell & Sons showed the finest fruit of Royal Sovereign yet seen. 
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