Cannell & Sons’ 'Complete Seed Guide. 
VALDE OF THE GAtBEN, &c. 
Perfect liealth is more precious than wealth j the sun shines bright 
where both are combined and judiciously managed. To continue this, the 
garden with all its productions is absolutely necessary for every pang of 
hunger and thirst; nearly every want for the cheerfulness of the body, eye, 
or intellect emanates from either vegetables, fruits, or flowers. How 
readily they relieve our wants and bring light and happiness to every 
family ! It is of the utmost importance that the most modern and improved 
varieties should be purchased and partaken of, avoiding the wild inferior 
kinds of the heathens. It is wo who possess the most modern and best 
forms ; it is our art in business. Remembering the enormous number of 
plants nature has provided for us — probably not less than 100,000 — it can 
readily be comprehended the study and the heavy responsibility resting on 
our mind and shoulders to keep all in good and correct order at any chance 
time they may be asked for, for all the best of everything needed for the 
garden is our sole everyday calling and existence, and all our departments 
are always in readiness, particularly seeds, to be sent safely to all parts of 
the globe by post. 
We need hardly say we are grateful for past favours. We have striven 
our utmost for thirty years, feeling that we have hitherto given one and all 
of our patrons the greatest satisfaction, and trust we may be favoured with a 
much larger share of your patronage ; when so, we guarantee that nothing 
shall be wanting on our part, and hope to secure continued recommendations 
amongst friends. 
Everything necessary for the garden is propagated, grown, and supplied 
in the best possible order. Our Firm is a large one, divided into fourteen 
departments (we are really wholesale growers selling retail), with expert 
foremen in each, so that whatever is wanted is at hand, and quickly de- 
spatched at a price certainly not more, but in nearly all cases lower, than 
other firms. Our facilities are great, and being as it were the actual manu- 
facturers, together with our naturally favoured spot in England, we are 
able to grow and supply nearly everything ourselves direct ; if not, they 
are procured from the best sources, no matter where or at what cost, so that 
we supply the best. We are determined that our reputation shall extend, 
and our name become a household word. 
IT IS VERY NECESSARY YOU SHOULD SEE THIS. 
OUR ASTER FIELD. 
m o give an idea of the extent of onr seed growing — particularly Asters — which do so wonderfully well, yielding seed equal to what is 
usually supplied from the Continent, and which we guarantee to give more than satisfaction. We have hundreds of testimonials praising 
onr Asters. The last four years all, or nearly all, the seeds are of our own growing. The following report will go far to prove our assertions as 
being correct; — 
Reprinted from the GARDENERS’ CHRONICLE. 
OUR SEED FARM. 
AZING with a somewhat dreamy air at a few Asters in pots, sent up from Chiswick to the James Street Drill Hall the other day, Mr. H. Cannell 
sententiously remarked that he had a grand lot just then in bloom at Eynsford, and invited me to go and see them. The invitation was too 
tempting to be declined, and accordingly a few days later I found myself with my energetic host standing out on the side of the hill which 
slopes southwards to the Eynsford valley, looking upon what can be truly described the finest shows of Asters I have seen. As under the force 
of the prevalent strong wind, the rich masses of coloured flowers surged to and fro, sometimes in broad sunlight, sometimes in shade, it was not 
possible to refuse a warm tribute of admiration for a most beautiful as well as brilliant floral spectacle. There are large breadths of Quilled, of Victoria, 
of Paeontj-Jlowered, of Pompon, of Pmperor, and other sections, in mixed colours, and very beautiful they are, because of the bizarre colouring found in 
some twelve or fifteen diverse forms or markings thus interspersed ; still further, the mixtures are of special interest, because these include some lines or 
markings not found in the selected colours, and thus furnish the ground-work of further selections of special merit. Still, the best effects are found in 
the big blocks or masses of colour, which hundreds of plants, all of one hue, produce. Because rather the earliest perhaps, the Pmony, or incurved 
flowered, seemed, at the time of my inspection, to be the most brilliant, because the most fully in bloom ; and some of the colours were indeed 
glorious under the sunlight — so telling, in fact, as to almost beggar description. Although growing, as it were, under field culture, and out on the 
exposed breezy hillside, yet the flowers are in all cases of splendid quality. I have never seen better under ordinary culture, or plants more 
profusely blooming. 
Mr. Cannell is growing these Asters for seed production, and without doubt he starts in the production of home-raised seed with very fine strains, 
the flowers being as perfectly double as well as they can be. — A, D. 
Mr. G. Lewis, Edde Cross, Ross, Hereford, 2nd April, 1805. 
The seeds have all arrived satisfactorily, and the potatoes were in splendid condition, reflecting great credit on the way you store them. It will 
always be a pleasure to me to recommend your firm to anyone requiring good seeds. 
Your New York Cabbage Lettuce is the finest I have ever grown. 
Mr. .1. Giuiis, The Gardens, Silkhnrst, East Grinstead, 5M Jitlji, 1805. 
Mr. ,1. Stockmax. Gardens. Arlington, Belfast, OM Juh/, 1S95. 
I write to tell you I grew seven different sorts of Tomatoes, all said to be the best, but your Kitu / beat tuksi all. 
W. Bell. Esq., Glen House, Cork, \2th Aiinuet, 1895. 
Tour C ar.'ot and Parsnip seeds were the best I ever had in my garden, every seed I think grew. 
, Mr. H. F. IIiLLiEU, F'.R.H.S., Buriton, Petersfield, it/i September, 189.5. 
Tour Ring Tomato is a beauty. I took first prize at our show, several on the scales weighing over a pound. I am much pleased. 
Mr. A. TV. Laxb, Desborough, High TVycombe, 2,0t/i Mm\h, 1895. 
I received the potatoes quite safe, and was very mneh pleased with them, and the w'ay you packed them. 
