INDEX TO CANNELL & SONS’ COMPLETE SEED GUIDE for 1896, 
Spinach 
I*AG E 
41,63 
Spray Pnmp 
4i) 
Stachys 
... 4.5, 119 
Statice 
121 
Stellaria 
121 
Stenactis 
121 
Stipa 
... 121, 131 
Stock 
54, 120. 121 
Strawberry Plants... 
... 138,1.39 
Streptocarpus 
... 121,122 
Sub-tropical Plants 
131 
Succory 
25 
Sultan’s Balsam 
97 
Sundries, Garden ... 
... 47—52 
Sunflower 
55, 95, 121 
Swede 
44 
Sweet Alyssum 
... 67, 121 
Sweet Pea ... 55, 
107, 122, 123 
Sweet Scented Flowers 55 
Sweet Sultan 
55, 76. 121 
Sweet William 55, 87. 88. 121 
Syringes 
48, 49, 51 
TABLE PLANT... 
119 
Tagetes 
55, 100, 123 
Tarragon 
rAGB 
26, 45 
Tassell Flower 
... 123 
Terms of Business 
... 3 
Thermometers 
... 48 
Thorn Apple 
... 85 
Thunbergia 
... 123 
Thyme 
26, 46 
Tickseed 
... 70 
Tigridia 
.. 132 
Toad Flax 
... 98 
Tobacco Plant 
103, 123 
Tobacco Seed 
44, 103 
Tomato 
42—44 
Tools. Garden 
47—52 
Torenia 
... 123 
Treasure Flower 
... 91 
Tricholoeua 
... 131 
Trichosantbes 
... 124 
Tropceolum ... 65, 124, 
125. 135 
Trowels, Garden 
Turnip-rooted Celery ... 
Tuberoses 
48, 51 
... 23 
132, 135 
Turnip 
... 41 
Tweezers 
... 47 
Tydffia 
... 124 
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UNDERGROUND ONIONS 46 
Uniola 131 
VALERIANA 108, 124 
Vallota 134 
Vegetable Marrow 44 
Vegetable Novelties, coloured paper 
Vegetable Oyster 40 
Vegetable Plants .. 44 
Vegetable Seed Collections ... 5, (! 
Venus’s Looking-Glass ... 74, 124 
Verbascum 124 
Verbena 125 
Verbena Pins 48 
Veronica 125 
Vinea 125 
Vines 137 
Viola 104, 125 
Violet ... 125, 135 
Virginian Stock ... 55, 125, 126 
Viscaria 55, 126 
WAITZIA 126 
Wallflower 55, 126,127 
PAG E 
Water Barrow 51 
Watercress 25 
Weed Destroyers 47—50 
Welsh Poppy 101, 127 
Whitlavia 55, 127 
Wigandia 127, 131 
Windflower 57 
Winter Aconite 134 
Winter Cherry 107,127 
Winter Flowering Bulbs ... 135 
Winter Flowering Plants ... 135 
Wire, Bouquet 4!) 
Witloof 25 
Woodruff 58 
Wormwood 26, 45 
XERANTHEMUM 127 
ZAUSCHNERIA ... 127 
Zea 65, 128, 131 
Zinnia ' 55, 127—120 
Zonal Pelargonium ... 107, 135 
BY .A. bibisTtisb: lycAv-isr. 
Fro'iii. the “ Kent Messenger” 
Every traveller by the L. C. and 1). Railway to London must have 
noticed the broad breadths of brilliant colour which line the ground just 
below the embankment as he approaches Eynsford and Swanley. These 
mark the places where Mr. Henry Cannell, with his sons, has planted his 
pretty home and his flower seed gardens. In the midst of Summer no more 
beautiful and brilliant spot can be found, but the middle of October is not 
so good a time to visit the flower garden, for its thousands of sparkling gems, 
so brilliant in the Summer sunlight, arc “ faded and gone,” and the very beds 
where they were are bare or trenched. But that the gardens have fulfilled 
what was intended of them is proved by the large store seen in the back- 
ground, for there have been carefully cleaned, assorted, marked, and gar- 
nered the crop of seeds for which the beautiful parterres tvere arranged. 
When we say that the great bulk of the annual seeds sold by Messrs. Cannell 
& Sons is thns raised, those who have not seen their ground may form some 
idea not only of their brilliance and beauty of form and colour, but also 
of their enormous extent. 
But there are yet other departments in Messrs. Cannclls’ establishment. 
It is, of course, all very well to show a magnificeut bed of geraniums, every 
truss of which is true to colour and name, but it requires very little knowledge 
of horticulture to realise that these cannot be kept during Winter in the open 
air, still less can be preserved in full blooming vigour for decorations 
for the Winter months, or propagated for Summer bloom without extensive 
hothouses and propagating pits. Of the former there are no fewer than 38 
double spanned, at Swanley, with eight others at Eynsford, while of the 
latter the number is almost countless. Each of the former must be capable, 
we should imagine, of bolding fomething like 6,000 plants — the length being 
100 feet, and the ii terlor douVle barked. We may here mention that at 
October 2Qth, 1895. 
their two places Messrs. Cannell employ 14 skilled foremen and upwards of 
200 hands. 
Messrs. Ctinncll have made themselves very popular, not only in Kent, 
but all over the world, by encouraging two classes of competitions, one for 
professional gardeners and the other for Amateur Gardeners' Societies. For 
the former, a handsomely executed gold crown arid star of honour, with 
valuable money prizes, are offered for competition each year ; while for the 
societies, a handsome champion belt and money prizes are also given. 
These coveted awards are recognised as showinga very high degree of merit, 
and are valued and worn with becoming pride by the victors. 
Though olir object was to make some inquiries as to seeds, and though 
the full blaze of beauty, whether in the open ground or in the houses, many 
had passed away, it would have been folly to have missed what yet remained 
to be seen of the flowers in their Swanley home. The first house we went 
into was in itself an abundant payment for our journey. It was much larger 
than the rest, being 160 feet long by 25 wide, but was absolutely filled with 
collections of the finest and choicest Chrysanthemums. Of this grand 
Autumn flower Messrs. Cannell have about 1,400 named varieties drawn 
from all parts of the globe, and to this, as a return for their own skill, 
they will this year add some 300 more. The magnificence of this collection, 
though yet scarcely in full bloom, whether for beauty of form, brilliance of 
colour, enormous size of bloom, and distinctness of character, we have not 
seen e(|ualled. In other houses were grand collections of Zonal Pelar- 
goniums, with grand trusses of bloom. Begonias (a special favourite of 
Mr. Cannell, several houses being devoted to it). Petunias, Coleus, 
Margaret Carnations, various coloured Marguerites, Primulas, Passiflorav, 
Arums, and a host of other perenivals and tender herbaceous plants, either 
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