liave been awarded Medals for many years ])ast at the Crystal Valace and South 
Kensinj^ton. Although we do not grow for competition, we have exhibited the largest 
and most complete collections, the finest flowers, and made the greatest display. 
For five successive years we were awarded by the Royal 
Horticultural Society, South Kensington, Gold and Silver 
Gilt Medals, for the best and most complete collections. 
It should be distinctly understood 
that we grow above 1,000 plants 
of the Show and Fancy class alone 
to the greatest perfection ; in fact, 
tlicy form quite a grand feature in 
our Nursery, and the following list 
is umjucstionably most complete. 
AYheii these are well grown they are 
one of the noblest and most beantitully 
made flowers in cultivation, but to 
grow them well they must have an 
anxious and industrious master, for 
tlieir wants are continual from June to 
Scj)teml)er. They require a good 
deej) soil, well Trenchcil, ami full of 
manure. Obtain, about the end of 
Ai)ril. wiry small -.stemmed i)laiits. 
shift them at once into (J-inch pots, 
keep tliem in a frame with the lights 
only kept on at niglU; })lant them out 
when the first warm nights in June 
arrive, well stake them as they grow, 
and cover the ground with four inches 
of stable manure, watering them over- 
head every day, or oftener if the 
weather be very dry, and thinning tl)c 
lateral shoots out in the cjise of medium 
growers, but those with large fiowers 
less, supplying the plants when making 
their fiower buds with a soaking of 
liquid manure, besides washing them 
overhead every night to keep thrij) 
from the flowers. The above direc- 
tions are for show purposes, and the 
following varieties are most constant, 
finest for exhibition, and also make a 
grand disjday in shrubbery borders 
where allowed to grow as they like. 
Ddilji News, Au(fust 24M. 1SS7. — “Show heal in Royal Horticultural Gardens, South Kensington. 
— The Silver Hanksian Medal was awarded to Messrs. Canncll & Sons, Swanlcy, for their marvel- 
lously rounded and perfect Dahlias.” 
Mr. D. Bookeu, 3, Franklin Road, Brighton, ./wnc {\th. 1887 
1 received tlie Dahlias and seeds ()uitc safe and sound. I am well satisfied with them, and shall 
be plea.sed to recommend you to any of my employers. 
Mr. R. Gii.HKKr. Burgliley Gardens. Stamford, Ainjust 1th, 1887. 
Tlie collection of Pomj)on Dahlias you sent ns in the spring are ju^t now in full bloom j the 
varieties of colour and their cx(|uisite forms renders them the admiration of all who see them. 
T. A. Hayneu, Esq., Sandy, Beds, Aiujust 27M, 1887. 
I am pleased to tell you that I was awarded two First Frizes for Dahiias— viz., Show and Fancy— 
at our Show. 
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