Cannell & Sons’ Complete Seed Guide. 
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KEIGHLEY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY’S SHOW, 1894 . 
The sixty-lirst annual exhibition of this Society wa.s 
held in the spacious Butterfield Hall, Keighley, on 
Saturday, 11th August, 1894, and although not favoured 
by fine weather, it proved in all other respects 
eminently successful. 
The chief feature of the show was the contest for 
the Yorkshire championship sash and valuable money 
prizes presented by H. Cannell & Sons, of Swanley and 
Eynsford, Kent, to be competed for by amateur and 
cottage gardeners’ societies in any riding of the broad- 
acred county. 
Five societies entered, and when the exhibits were 
staged it was seen that the judges would have no easy 
task in deciding which, when all things were considered, 
was entitled to the distinction of holding the newly- 
instituted chanipionshi]) for the first twelve mouths. By 
the interest evinced in this, the initial contest, it bids fair 
to equal in spirited friendly rivalry all other inter-society 
competitions, into which Torkshiremen always enter with 
much zest. Many were the opinions expressed respect^ 
ing the suireriority of one exhibit over the others, but it 
M'as impossible to predict the winner without knowing 
the exact number of points which the judges would 
apportion to each section — whether the beautiful vege- 
tables exhibited by the Glusburn societies were sufficiently 
superior to counterbalance the small deficiency in the 
choiceuess of their fruit or flowers, or whether the 
slightly-better specimens in their stand of flowers and 
their superb tomatoes would give the victory to Bingley 
in preference to the choice fruit of the Leeds Paxton 
Society and the even exhibit of the home members. The 
usual preparations having been made, the judges — all 
eminent northern horticulturists — entered upon their 
duties, and as the importance of the class, and the 
staging thereof immediately opposite the entrance, 
seemed to demand, devoted their first attention to the 
entries now under notice. 
As every one imagined, it was not until after much 
lime and consideration that they eventually decided to 
award the palm to the Bingley Horticultural Society, 
Leeds taking second, and Keighley third. It is not 
surprising, considering the excellence of the exhibits 
all round, and the consequent confidence with which 
they were staged, that some disappointment was felt by 
JlB. R. CO^EB, Mr. JAMES HARTLEY. Mr, Q. F. BROTHERSTON, 
I ice-Lnatrman. Gardener to Mr#. Salt, Milner Field, BiiigleJ 
Secret ary. 
Mr. R. CORNER, Vice-Chairman, Bingley Horticultural Society, Myrtle 
Grove Gardens, Bingley, 27th September, 1894. 
1 am very glad that you are pleased with the photos, and we shall do all that 
lies m our power to make some competition for next year, and will do all wc can 
as-vvell for yon. I have been staying in the Northland I took the photo and 
explained it with your catalogue; everyone said it w'as a grand thing to encourage 
horticulture, which I am sorry to say is not very much forwarded about here; but 
we had our first show at Bingley, and it was a good success. Our lioldiug the 
sash made it considerably better; we hud it in one of our biggest shop windows 
until the day of the show with big cards printed with the givers’ names and 
address ; afterwards it was on view at our show. There have been many 
comments as to the winners next year. Bradford say they will take it from ua, 
hut we shall bid boldly to keep it. It shall be better advertised than it was last 
year at Keighley ^ they meant keeping it. We hope you will benefit a thousand- 
fold for giving sucli a valuable and mnch-covctcd prize. 
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