dki\i\ell & Complete $eed Gfuide. 
General List oe Vegetables 
TERMS OF SALE. 
We grow our own Seeds, and every possible pains taken, and the striotest attention is 
paid, to have and supply every item as per Catalogue; but there are so many always 
anxious to rush into litigation for the sake of compensation for any trifle, and failures which 
may occur over which we have no control, that we are compelled to issue this notice 
CANNELL & SONS give no warranty, express or implied, as to description, quality, 
productiveness, or any other matter of any Seeds or Bulbs they send out, and 
they will not be in any way responsible for the Crop. If the purchaser does 
not accept the goods upon these terms they are to be returned. These conditions 
will be found in nearly all Seed Catalogues. 
REMITTANCE MUST ACCOMPANY ALL ORDERS FROM NEW CUSTOMERS. OR 
SATISFACTORY REFERENCES GIVEN. 
PEAS (PISUM SATIVUM). 
CULTURE. — Trenching or deep digging is highly necessary for Peas , in fact all vegetable culture ; 
even this is nearly always done as unwisely as can be. Take all the top good soil off and throw in 
on the second trench , keeping the top on the top , and then thoroughly break up the lower spit , which 
is generally very inferior , another foot; this done , the ground is then of double value — in fact, every 
inch oj soil should be done thus, and then our crops would be for ever considerably more productive. The 
ground should be well pulverised, and enriched with good manure , burnt rubbish, and lime. The earliest 
varieties may be sown about the second or third week in November, or first week in December, another 
sowing in January , and continuous sowings in the order they stand, every three weeks , up to the end of 
July. Sow in rows four to seven feet apart, according to height, which varies wonder filly, for instance, 
when about five or six inches above ground ; thin out if required, and properly stick. We find boards 
edgeways along the rows , on the windward side, capital protection. In a dry summer like 1887, when the 
Pea season was brought to a premature close, the advantages that may be derived from planting them in 
trenches were more apparent than usual. On soils of a light and burning nature, this is the only 
way whereby good crops of this vegetable may be ensured. If the trenches are taken out in the winter 
time, and the soil laid up on each side of them, it will sweeten, and when the time comes for sowing , be in 
a much better condition than digging can bring it to. If the refuse from the rubbish heap, mixed with its 
own bulk of manure , be laid in the bottom of the trenches, the roots will find their way into it, greatly to 
their benefit , when dry exhaustive weather comes. The difference in the yield of Peas grown in this way 
is great compared to the ordinary method. 
SECTION I. ; or, EARLIEST VARIETIES. Height Perqrt. 
in feet. s. d. 
Cannells’ “ English Wonder.” — In again offering this new and valuable first early 
Pen we have no hesilation in repeating all we said of it last season, when sending it 
out for the first time. It is, without doubt, the finest dwarf wrinkled early Pea, as 
we think the accompanying unsolicited testimonials and extracts from the various 
gardening papers will prove (see pages 8 and 9). The haulm grows from 1 foot 
to l(i inches high, and is covered with beautiful carved dark green pods, 
produced in pairs, literally packed with 8, 9, and in many cases 10 and 11 pens 
of first-class flavour when cooked. In fact, on looking over our large breadth 
when growing, we felt so confident of its becoming the leading Pea of its class 
that we decided to offer no other variety of a similar kind 1 3 0 
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