Cannell & Sons’ Complete Seed Gnide. 
GENERAL LIST OF V EGETABLES. 
Our ambition is to supply the most “Perfect Seeds,” so that all purchasers may ensure having perfect' results. Our exertions 
are at all times devoted to improving and to re-selecting 1o model types and still greater perfection. 
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Our Seeds are all new and of our own growing. 
CANNELLS SEEDS 
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Those of our esteemed Patrons who have proved the value of our Collections of “ Perfect Seeds, " 
we respectfully ask them to recommend us to their Friends. 
The Varieties that are underiined are recommended as worthy of general cultivation to those who 
are uncertain as to which kinds to grow. 
PEAS. 
SECTION I., or EARLIEST VARIETIES. 
Cannells’ Selected “English Wonder. ” — It is, without doubt, the 
finest dwarf wrinkled early rea, as the unsolicited testimonials and exti-acts 
from the various gardening papers will prove. The haulm grows from 1 ft. 
to 16 ins. high, and is covered with beautiful curved dark green pods, 
produced in pairs, literally packed with 8, 9, and in many cases 10 and 11 
peas of first-class flavour when cooked. Where a first early variety i.s 
required for largo gardens it i.s iiirst es.sential, and owing to its dwaif 
growth ami free-cropping qualities it will be highly apirceiated by both 
amateurs and market gardeners alike Height 1 ft. 1 
Per qt. 
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lEA, cannells’ “ ENOLian woNnRR.” Best Dwarf Variety 
in Cultivation. 
(Pismn Sativum.') Leguminosac. 
PINTS CAN ALSO BE SUPPLIED OF ALL THE 
VARIETIES IN LIST. 
CULTURE — Trenching or deep digging is highly necessary for Peas, in 
fact, all vegetable culture. Take all the top good soil off and throw in on the 
second trench, keeping the top on the top, and then thoroughly break up the lower 
spit, which is generally very inferior, another foot (adding plenty of manure) ; 
this done, the ground is then of double value — in fact, every inch of soil should be 
done thus, and then onr crops would be considerably more productive. The ground 
should be well pulverised and enriched with good manure, burnt rubbish, and lime. 
The earliest varieties may be .'own about the second or third week in November, or first 
week in December, another sowing in January, and continuous sowings in tlm order 
they stand, every tbree weeks, up to the end of July. Sow in rows four to seven feet 
apart (according to height, which varies wonderfully) ; when about five or six 
inches above ground, thin out if required, and properly stick. We find boards 
edgeways along the rows on the windward side capital protection. In a dry summer 
like 1893, when the Pea season was brought to a premature close, the advantages 
that may be derived from planting them in trenches and well watered before sowing 
the Peas were more apparent than nsual. On soils of a light and burning nature, 
this is the only way whereby good crops of this vegetable may be ensured. If the 
trenches are taken out in the wintertime, and the soil laid up on each side of them, 
it will sweeten, and when the time comes for sowing, be in a much better condition 
than digging can bring it to. If the refuse from the rubbish heap, mixed with its 
own bulk of manure, be laid in the bottom of the trenches, the roots will find their 
way into it, greatly to their benefit, when dry exhaustive weather comes. In a dry 
eeason mulching should be liberally done. The difference in the yield of peas grown 
in this way is great compared to the ordinary method. 
By sowing seeds of some of the early kinds in July, a late picking of Peas may 
be had until the frost sets in. 
The general height is here given of’ the various kinds of Peas, but, of course, 
the season and richness of the soil will cause a difference. 
Extracts from GABDENING ILLUSTHATED. 
CANNELLS’ ENGLISH WONDER PEA.- This is an improvement on tlie oi(ier <iwarf eariy variety caiied American il'nndrr, and is one of tlie very best for very eariy or very 
liiu* ol’Qjis — in fact, except f^>r tlie iniflsiunmer crop there is no ncwl to prow any other in private paniens. One could pet a very pood siipjily every day of I he I’eu season from Ihi'J 
\anety alone, hiu everyone likes variety, and for the liottest weeks of the year I like to have a few rows of the larpe .Marrow I’eas, l)ut they take up so much space that one cannot 
alTord'the room or theparden would he all Peas. I find that for the area covered there is nothinp like the dwarf of the Kn^litth Wonder type. I am now patherinp beautiful dishes 
from rows in whicli the haiuLm is only 12 inches hiph. The plan I like best for the late crop is to nip out a trench as if for a siiiple row of Celery, put some well-rotted manure ami soil 
ill, so that when fmishcsl it is only about three iiumes below the ordinary level ; then scatter the seed thinly over the entire surface, cover with soil, ami one potwl soiikinp of water will 
last a lonp time. Peas in abundance may he patlicred up to October, or even later if the weather keeps open.* In the suburban patxlen Pea-stakes are such an expensive luxury that the> 
'fost iis imn;h as the Peas; hut after tryinp the majority for a very early and very late supply 1 have come to the conclusion that English H'omfer is the sort to rely on.— -T. Out cm, Oosi^rt. 
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