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I CHalienge to all oilier Societies in Kent. 
ALL FROM CANNELLS’ SEEDS. 
N interesting account is forwarded us of the proceedings at the dinner, given to 
7MJ members of the Eyas ford and District Cottage Gardeners’ Society, at the “ Five 
Dells” Inn, by' Messrs. Cannell & Sons, of the Swanley and Eynsford Nurseries. 
An invitation had been circulated among the members of the Society to bring to tlm dinner 
each a dish of hot cooked potatoes, and the first business consisted of “ sampling ’ some 
twenty-five dishes of the vegetable and deciding on their various merits. After a 
careful test, the palm was awarded to a new variety raised by Mr. Robert Cannell, and 
known as “ Our Seedling,” the next in order of merit being Cannells’ Victory, followed 
by White Beauty, Snowdrop, and American Bose, in the order named. After the 
tables had been cleared, Mr. H. Cannell occupied the chair, and Mr. .). D. Abbott, Sir 
W. Hart-Dyke’s gardener, the vice.chair. The chairman, after expressing the pleasure 
it gave him to meet the members of the Society, said he had decided to offer £6 in 
prizes at the Society’s show next year, and it was for those present that night to decide 
the terms of the competition. The vice-chairman, in proposing “ That the best thanks 
of the Society be given to Messrs. Cannell for their generous offer,” said he was sure 
that every member would agree with him that it was a great honour for them to have 
such eminent horticultural authorities as Messrs. Cannell among them, and he was sure 
the chairman’s able address would stimulate them to further efforts than they had yet 
made. It was eventually decided that the competition should take the form of a collec- 
tion of eight varieties of vegetables, selected from the exhibits of the Eynsford Society 
on the day of the Show, matched against a similar collection of eight varieties exhibited 
by any other similar society in Kent, the prizes to be divided as follows First prize, 
,£;t . second prize, £2 ; and third prize, £1 ; the proviso being inserted that no one 
society should take more than one prize. The particulars of the special prize competi- 
tion will be forwarded to all neighbouring societies, and it is hoped that a good show 
on August 17th next will result. 
We intend to make this a gala day, the Show being held in the grounds of 
Crossley, Esq., and only a short distance from our establishment at Eynsford. \\ e 
should be much pleased to meet as many friends as can make it convenient to attend ; 
and we need hardly say to all lovers of horticulture that they would be highly interested, 
and particularly if they visited our Swanley Nursery, which is too well known for us to 
make any further reference. 
The Eynsford Horticultural Society has long carried all before it at nnghbOuring 
shows, so much so that it is excluded from exhibiting ; and now, from the fact of such 
productive seeds being produced in the Parish giving it such impetus, it has decided 
on challenging the whole of Kent. 
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