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To carry any vegetable as a novelty for more than a decade, 
as I have carried this one, speaks well for the vegetable. 
I named and introduced this great onion in 1888. Nothing 
except a variety of highest and rarest merit could be thus 
honored in the valuable space of a great seed catalogue. 
Yet the Prizetaker onion fully deserves the prominence which 
I have annually given it, and has abundantly justified all the 
predictions made for it and all the praises bestowed upon it. 
It is by far the handsomest, most productive, most profitable 
and best of all the yellow globe onions. 
Prizetaker is of a bright, clear straw color, and always 
grows to a uniform shape, which is a perfect globe. It has a 
very small neck, and ripens up without stiffness of the neck. 
In market it never fails to attract attention on account of its 
onion, whether red, white or yellow. It is even more attrac- 
tive in appearance than the large Spanish onion sold on city 
fruit stalls, and, in fact, takes the place of that variety. 
With ordinary culture the crop of Prizetaker onions is not 

beauty, and is sure to bring a far better price than any other | 

MAULE’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 3900. 9 
A $150.00 IN PRIZES 
FOR PRIZETAKERS. 
I will pay $75 to the customer who “ 
sends me on or before Nov. 1, 1900 (either 2: 
by mail or by express charges prepaid) =%i||| 
the finest and largest specimen of 2:3 
Maule’s Prizetaker Onion grown from =} 
seed purchased of me during 1900. To =||| 
gy the customer who sends me the next =!) 
best, 1 will pay $50, and to the one who =} 
sends me the next best, $25, making 3) 
three prizes, in all amounting to $150.00. 4 
i Named and Introduced this Onion. Headquarters Seed can be Obtained Nowhere Else. 
Quoting my friend, Mr. Greiner, who called Prizetaker the 
“King of All Onions,’’ it excels everything else in beauty, 
| size and productiveness, and equals the best in quality, being 
| as mild in flavor as the imported onions. 
People who wish to make money, says Mr. Greiner, should 
| plant the Prizetaker; ‘“‘plant none but the Prizetaker.’’? This 
|is the opinion of a man who has studied the subject practi- 
cally for many years, and who has written a book on onions 
and onion culture. The Prizetaker is especially fitted, by the 
way, for what Mr. Greiner describes as ‘‘the new onion cul- 
ture.’ Large onions can always be raised in a single season 
| directly from the seed, avoiding the use of sets. 
The Prizetaker is gifted with strong drouth-resisting ability, 
and I consider this one of its great merits. 
I have sold seed of this grand onion to something like one 
| hundred thousand American gardeners, and have accumulated 
avast amount of favorable testimony relating to it, proving 
\that itis now accepted and recognized as the standard and 
leading yellow globe variety. I have personally looked in 

infrequently 700 to 800 bushels per acre, and often runs up to 
1,000 bushels, and in weight a single specimen has reached as 
high as 6 pounds, 2 ounces. 
My prediction made years ago, at the time of its introduc- 
tion, that Prizetaker would supplant all others of its class, 
has long since been verified. It has attracted more attention 
and awakened wider and more cordial enthusiasm than any 
other onion ever introduced to the American public. It has 
proven itself a great acquisition to gardeners and farmers, and 
is today admitted to be the largest, finest flavored and most 
superior yellow globe onion under cultivation. 
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| vain in various parts of Europe and America for an onion 
| surpassing Prizetaker in beauty, productiveness and general 
merit, and believe there is nothing better in the whole world. 
| It is unexcelled for either home use or as a money maker. 
| Owing to a largely increased acreage, nutwithstanding a 
short crop, I have a good supply of Prizetaker for 1900, con- 
sequently, although the seed is worth a great deal more 
money than it was in ’99, I have only advanced my price 25 
cents per pound. On account of my reasonable prices, I 
|expect to sell every pound of Prizetaker I have on hand, 
so would solicit early orders. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents; '4 pound, 60 cents; pound, $2.00; 10 pounds, by express, $17.50. 
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