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MAULE’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1900. 5 
NEW EARLY SPRING CABBAGE. — 
This fine new cabbage represents an early 
type of great value. It has all the merits of 
Early Summer, but matures in advance of 
that well known variety. In fact, it is ready 
to cut as soon as Jersey Wakefield. It isa flat 
cabbage with the quick maturing ability of a 
pointed cabbage. 
Single heads of Early Spring often attain a 
weight of 5 pounds; but on the average they 
are about four-fifths the size of Early Sum- 
mer, and have very few outside leaves. The 
introducer says the piants may be set as 
closely as 21 inches, or 13,500 to the acre. The 
> growth is very uniform, the head being round 
and slightly flattened. The stem is short, and 
extends but a little way into the head. 
The whole plant is finely bred in every way, 
the head being nearly all edible. The leaves 
2 present no coarse features. The head is 
formed while the plant is still comparatively 
young, long before reaching maturity, and 
the head grows in size and hardness as the 
plant attains strength. 
The fiavor is very good, and Early Spring 
cabbage is equally adapted to private gardens 
and to market. It will outweigh Jersey 
Wakefield fully a fifth, head for head, which 
is a very important matter in commercial 
gardening, and would be significant where 
cabbage is grown by the acre. I consider 
Early Spring a highly valuable addition to my 
list. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 40 cents. 











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NEW EARLY SPRING CABBAGE. 
NEW RED POLISH SHORT STEMMED CABBAGE. 
This new red cabbage is very hardy. The heads are of a dark red color, and are extremely 
firm and heavy. The stem is short, and there are but few outer leaves. The quality of the cab- 
bage is excellent, and I feel able to recommend it highiy. The outside leaves are somewhat 
crumpled at the edges, and have a tendency toward a compact form of growth, making it pos- 
sible to set the plants closer in the row than in case of some other really smaller red cabbages 
having morespreading leaves. This promising red cabbage should have wide trial, as it possesses 
points of evident superiority. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents; 44 pound, 75 cents; pound, $2.50. 
THE LUPTON CABBAGE. 
Out of the hundreds of new cabbages which have come forward with superlative claims of late 
crop excellence during recent years, and which have had critical comparative tests In my trial 
grounds, the Lupton is the only one which is a true rival of my great Surehead strain. i 
Lupton has some of the best traits of Surehead, with thesize and 
general shape of Maule’s Prize Flat Dutch; but is several days ear- 
lier than the lattersort. Its growthis particularly strong and vig- 
orous. Its color is a dark bluish green, indicating robust copstitu- 
tion and healthy development. The leaves are broad, and well 
filled out to their juncture with the stem. Thestem is short, and 
is broad under the head, but tapers almost to a point where it en- 
ters the ground. The head is thick and flat with the outer leaves 
covering it well across the centre. It is very large, 
solid, and of the most excellent quality and fla- 
vor, without any features of coarseness, the veins 
and ribs being well developed, but not prominent. 
J y : 4 4 AS a cropper and profitable market sort the 
SSS j XU 3, A, SQ Lupton is absolutely unexcelled by any late cab- 
, | f j S \ . y bage on the market. On this point I am positive. 
In the Lupton cabbage will be found the perfec- 
tion of type and reliability of heading, which are 
the most desirable features of all cabbages, to- 
gether with a strong constitution, insuring vigor- 
ous growth and perfect heading, even under ad- 
verse conditions. 
Lupton matures about a week in advance of the 
various strains of Late Flat Dutch, isan excellent 
keeper, and for all purposes of the tarmer and 
gardener is the best main crop cabbage now on 
the market, its nearest rival being Surehead. 
The Lupton cabbage began its career in 1888, on 
the eastern end of Long Island, In an extensive 
cabbage growing district. The originator, whose 
name the cabbage bears, grows much cabbage 
seed to my order, being especially tavored with a 
fertile soil and a cool, moist ciimate. In the 
autumn of 1888 a single specimen of a new strain 
of cabbage was found growing as a sport ina 
field of Late Flat Dutch. Mr. Lupton, whose long 
experience qualifies him to act as an expert 
judge, at once recognized a prize in the new sort, 
and proceeded to propagate it, and to fix the type 
by a process of careful and repeated selection, 
and thus the Lupton cabbage had its origin. 
I was given the privilege of associating the 
name of the originator with the new strain,a 
privilege which Mr. Lupton would never have 
granted except in case of a strain in which he had 
the utmost confidence. Mr, Lupton’s early judg- 
ment and my subsequent opinion of this great 
cabbage have been fully justified by time and ex- 
perience, and I can say that it deserves equally 
with Surehead, the celebrated descriptive phrase, 
“all head and always sure to head.” 
Il recommend it to the public with great and un- 
reserved confidence, for it is unquestionably en- 
titled to a place of highest esteem among large 
late cabbages. The Lupton must be accepted asa 
leader among leaders. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 
40 cents; 44 pound, $1.25; pound, S.00. 
























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