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fRIZETAKER 

 Onion 



5T» First offered in 1888, 

 and it proves to be the 

 greatest acquisition 

 in years. The Larg- 

 est, Handsomest, 

 Finest Flavored, 

 Most Superior 

 Yellow Globe On- 

 ion ever intro- 

 duced. This simply 

 magnificent onion is 

 certainly a won- 

 der, There has never 

 been an onion in 

 ^^ these United States 

 "*'" ** that could equal it, 

 and I believe it will supplant all other Yellow Globe Onions now in 

 cultivation, as soon as its sterling qualities are known, for it is cer- 

 tainly perfection. Of a clean, bright straw color, it always grows to a uniform 

 shape, which is a perfect globe. It has a very small neck and always ripens up 

 hard and fine, without any stiff-necks. In market it attracts marked attention, 

 and although only offered to a limited extent, has always been picked out and 

 selected at three times the price of any other sort on sale, either red, white or 

 yellow. Produces 700 and more bus. per acre, keeping qualities are excellent, in 

 Spring the Bulbs being apparently as firm and solid as when put away in Fall. 



Packet, 15 cts. ; Ounce, 35 cts. ; % Pound, $1.00; Pound, $3.50. 



DON'T BE HUMBUGGED 



Into purchasing seed said to be MAULE'S PRIZETAKER 

 offered at low prices. The genuine article can not be 

 sold at profit at lower figures than above. The Ohio 

 Experiment Reports state distinctly that the Spanish 

 King of some dealers and Prizetaker are not the same. 



That popular publication, the Orchard and Garden has this to sav about 

 Prizetaker: "The finest Onion we have ever raised is Maule's Prizetaker as 

 beautiful and as large as the Spanish Onion on sale at our fruit stands and sur- 

 passing by far, the excellent Spanish Onion sent out bv & ■ — The 



Prizetaker in short is the acme of beauty and perfection, and will undoubtedly 

 become the most popular yellow onion in cultivation. Mark what we say " 



That excellent paper Popular Gardening for Nov., 1889, contained the following: 



"Xote from the Popular Gardening Grounds at La Salle-on-the-Xiagara. A 

 Prizetaker. We always try every new Onion that we hear of. and the older 

 ones, too. This season again we had a great number of varieties, among them 

 Silver King, Mammoth Pompeii. Spanish King, and various other mammoth 

 sorts. Owing to the new condition of the soil, lateness of the season, and lack 

 of various requisites at the proper time, our success was nothing to brag about 

 although we have a fair crop. Among the score or more of choicest sorts how- 

 ever, none can hold the candle to Prizetaker, a variety introduced last year by 

 Mr. William H. Maule. Our specimens last year were the finest Onions we ever 

 raised equalling in size and beauty the imported Spanish Onions of our fruit 

 stores and groceries, and our experience with them this year only strengthens 

 our good opinion of it. A few rows grown with good care, but otherwise by no 

 means under the most favorable circumstances, gave us bulbs the small 

 which weighed over one-half of a pound each, and which yielded at the rate 

 of over 1000 bushels per acre. With special care we think we" could even double 

 this yield, and propose to do this next year. Its name is undoubtedly proper. 

 No other variety can take the prize at any exhibition in competition with a 

 well-grown Prizetaker; at least this is the conclusion of two seasons' trials with 

 it. It has proved itself to be the Onion par excettt nee." 



Edwin L. Bristol. Stanley, N. Y : "Your Prizetaker onions arespleridid. From 

 one packet of seed I raised 2 bushels of fine onions." 



Chas. E. Scott, Knobnoster, .\lo.: "Prizetaker is the finest onion ever grown in 

 this country." 



Etobt E. Fuller. Kiamichi.Ind. Ter.: "I never met with better success than with 

 your Prizetaker : Silver King were tine." 



Chas. Showers, Marion, Ohio.: "Your Prizetakers are the best onions I ever 

 raised, and are good sellers. I could have sold a great many more if I bad them " 



S. M. Miller and C. M. Snyder. Hutchinson, Kans.: "From one ounce of Prize- 

 taker onion seed we raised 1.140 pounds of line, large onions, which look the pre- 

 mium at our ("air." 



J. W. Qarretson. Barnesville, Ohio.: "I cannot speak too hichlv of vour Prize- 

 taker onions : I think I am safe in saying that two-thirds of mv crop will me 

 three inches in diameter. All who have seen mv onions admit they are the Quest 

 they ever SAW." 



C ML Dixon. Parrish, Ills.: "Vour Prizetaker onion is a prizetaker indeed. I 

 raised onions that weighed 2 ihs.,-i ounces and measured 17' 4 Inches around. I took 

 20 onions to our county fair; they gained the tirst premium, and 1 got BjOO for them 

 after the fair was over." 



I. S. (ioodale. Ionia City, Mich.: "I am well pleased with the Prizetaker onion 

 seed; from the '., pound of seed I cot :« bushels ; they average '- pound, and a great 

 many of them a pound; but I cot them loo thick ni the rows to grow large. Mv 

 wife says your 1KJ4 radish can't be beat." 



I. W. Arnhart. Marionville, Mo.: "The one ounce of Prizetaker onion seed 

 did well : sold $38.00 worth. My neighbors made sport of me last spring for putting 

 out onion s,cd to raise for market. I sold my onions at 11.50 to I i 7S per bushel, 

 while my neighbors could not sell theirs, raised from the buttons^! anj pi 



I.. II. Hart let l. Stephen-oil. Mich.: ''Prizetaker onion is a marvel, I think it is 

 the king of onions ; from one ounce of seed l raised 723» bushels of the largest and 

 handsomest onions I over saw. I have been a gardener for IS years, but never 

 raised such onions. Your Improved Long Green Cucumber will vieid more than any 

 other variety, It is the best 1 ever sowed for pickles. Your seeds are ail A No. 1.'' 



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