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ALWAYS SURE TO HEAD. 
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brated Surehead cabbage may be offered to the public from time to 
time; but I do not think any one of them is iikely to outstrip Surehead 
in the great race. The new comers finally get into their true places, and 
usually take a back seat. 
I watch with great care all the new candidates for favor, and test 
them at Briar Crest, and am often willing to admit that their claims 
are partially or locally true; but I still think that Surehead for main 
crop will do the most good for the most people, and for the 24th time I 
urge my customers to get the genuine, headquarters stock, and to be 
satisfied with nothing else. No other cabbage in America to-day has 
all the merits of Maule’s Genuine Surehead, nor as many merits, 
possibly excepting the new Lupton. (See Specialties.) 
People who have never sown Maule’s Surehead do not know what the 
best cabbage is; 
American cabbages can be and have been blended into a single type by 
skillful hybridizing. This was done a quarter of a century ago by an 
expert market gardener, the result is a cabbage better than its parents. 
The Surehead is the greatest and most profitable cabbage ever intro- 
popularity. This is proved by my long experience with it, and by the 
testimony of over 100,000 planters, in all sections of the country, repre- 
senting all conditions of soil, elevation, climate and cultural treatment. 
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This will make the 24th consecutive year during which I have boomed this greatest of great cabbages. 
MAULE’S GENUINE SUREHEAD.—Pretended rivals of the cele-| while no serious complaints, even in isolated cases, have ever been 
made against this justly celebrated and populur cabbage, thousands of 
tongues and pens are ready to tell of its worth. Hence, I say again, if 
you want a cabbage all head and always sure to head, you will find it in 
Maule’s Genuine Surehead. Its only rival at this time, in my opinion, 
is the celebrated Lupton, which I introduced a few years ago, and which 
is doing well everywhere; but this admission of the great merit of Lup- 
ton does not in the least detract from the name and fame of Surehead. 
Maule’s Surehead is a cabbage of the general type of Prize Flat Dutch 
and Prize Drumhead, with the same large, deep, Somewhat flattened 
head, and the same high qualities; but somewhat finer in texture and 
with less spread of leaves. It isa late variety, with head as large 
Flat Dutch. It is almostabsolutely uniform in growth, having longa 
become a thoroughbred. The heads are firm and hard, andthe cabbage 
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keeps well and is asplendid shipper, and is a variety certain to give 
satisfaction for home use in Winter. I am sure that as now perfected 
Maule’s Surehead has no superior as a commercial cabbage. 
This cabb: always justifies its name, always heads, even wher 


It may be planted somewhat closer in the field than 
other large, late varieties; for though it forms heads of equal weight 
has fewer spreading outside leaves. For planting distances I 
mend 2l4 feet by 3 feet ascompared to 24x38 feet for other large sorts. 
This difference of three inches in the row will amount to over 600 
recom- 
1 can truthfully repeat the statements made in former catalogues, that) plants to the acre, which is almost a clear gain in favor of Surehead. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents; quarter=pound, 75 cents; pound, $2.50. 
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