Cannell & Sons’ Complete Seed Geiide. 
THE GREAT POTATO EXHIBITION, October 29, 1895. 
We exliibited the finest 100 varieties of Potatoes before the Council and all the greatest experts connected with the 
Koyal Horticultural Society’s Meeting, and were especially awarded the Society’s Knightian Medal. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle says : — 
' Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, staged a large and most interesting collection of Potatoes including everybody’s 
varieties which they grow for trade purposes under ordinary field culture, the whites being separated from the coloured 
varieties, and allowing all to show their average character under field production thoroughly. The white, flat, round Come-to-Stay 
was in fine form and handsome. This seems to be a first-rate variety. The collection comprised 100 varieties, and was of 
exceeding interest, well meriting the Silver Medal awarded. — Gardeners’ Chronicle, 2nd November, 1895. 
SEE THE ADVANTAGE OF 
CANNELLS’ KENTISH SEEDS. 
The Board of Agriculture offers two Diplomas for the best Seed Corn, thus making it absolutely 
necessary that you should have all the largest and best Seeds for the Garden. Over and over it has 
been proved that the finest and biggest Seeds yield the heaviest Crops ; it is even more important than 
manuring, and it is we who grow on the best spot, and supply direct, much the boldest Seeds sold 
in Europe. 
The Relation between the Weight of Seed and the Growth. 
Prom Agricultural Science, -the organ of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, issued in J une, 1895, we extract 
the following passages from an article by Mr. B, T. Galloway, on the growth of Eadishes as affected by the size and weight of the 
seed. The author says that : — “ The influence of the size and weight of the seed on the growth of the plant has received considerable 
attention, and it has been proved by well-conducted experiments that the large seed germinated more quickly and with more 
certainty, and produced marketable plants sooner and more uniformly, than small seed. That by the use of large seed from 85 to 90 
]>er cent, of the crop may be brought iu at the same time. That practically all the plants thus grown being marketable no ground is 
wasted. That enough time is saved by using large seed to grow one additional crop during the season ; in other words, it three crops 
are grown, usijig mixed seed, and waiting for all the plants to attain sufficient size for niarket, four crops can be obtained if large 
seed is planted. That the only additional expense is the extra amount of seed needed, all the smaller ones being sifted out and 
thrown away. The extra expense will average about 25 cents per pound of seed, and when it is known that a pound of seed will 
plant about 1,500 .square feet, the matter of extra expense becomes trivial.” — Prom the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 27th July, 1895. 
A. J. Weakley, Esq., Molteno, South Africa, 16(/i September, 1895 
I am glad to inform you that I am perfectly satisfied with the results of my importation of plants from you. I am counting on a display 
bye-and-bye. 
Dominion oe Canada Depart.ment of Agricoltdre. 
Professor Fletcher, Central E.xperimental Farm, Ottowa, 15</i October, 1896. 
I have been absent on the Pacific Coast during the past Summer, and on my return found the beautiful collection of tricolour Geraniums which 
you sent. They are extremely beautiful, and very satisfactory. I exhibited them at our Autumn Central Canada Exhibition, held iu this city, with 
a large label above the collection — “Tricolour Geraniums, Imported from Messrs. H. Cannell & Sons, Swanley, Kent, England, and 1 fully 
expect they will be the means of getting you some other orders. 
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