WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
Maule’s XX Selected Strain 
Golden Self-Blanching Celery. 
Always in Demand Where 
Good Celery is Appreciated 
Last year I supplied one firm 
with 300 pounds for their sow- 
ing, another with 225 pounds, 
another with 75 pounds, not to 
mention any number of orders 
for from 5 to 25 pounds each. 
I furnish more of this seed 
direct to growers for their own 
planting than any other seed 
firm in the country. 
If you wish the strain of 
Golden Self-Blanching Celery 
you have been looking for, you 
must plant Maule’s: XX. 
Golden Self-Blanching is the most-popular celery in culti- 
vation. It gives the largest returns for the labor. In quality 
it ranks with the highest. It is equally in favor with the 
amateur and market gardener.. It is of dwarf or half dwarf 
habit, growing about 18 to 20 inches high, wonderfully 
stocky, very heavy, perfectly solid, of delicate flavor and a 
good keeper. Added to these points is its great distinctive 
feature of being almost literally self-blanching. For years I 
have always had some seed of the Golden Self-Blanching 
grown for me by the original introducer, which I have sold 
under the name of XX Selected Strain. This year I have no 
other seed, all my Golden Self-Blanching celery being the 
XX Strain, which is absolutely the very best seed to be had 
anywhere at any price. 
Read the following letter received in the fall of 1906 from 
my largest customers for this seed : 
San Francisco, Cal. 
Wm. Henry Maule, 
Dear Sir: 
‘“‘We have found this year that your XX Selected Strain 
Golden Self-Blanching celery is best adapted to our soil and 
climate, and we are meeting with good results this year, get- 
Vegetable Seed Novelties—9 
TAVINTE 
PISA WS 
GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING CELERY. (XX SeLtectep Strain.) 
ting out more than 1,000 dozen to the aere fine, large celery, 
and expect to plant nothing but this variety another year, 
should you be able to furnish us the seed. We have one of 
the most fertile San Joaquin River Islands, the soil composed 
of well rotted peat. mixed with sediment, very rich and fer- 
tile.’’ Yours truly, Mitchell & Goodall. 
In 1906 Mitchell & Goodall’s order for XX Self-Blanching 
celery amounted to 140 pounds; to give an idea of what they 
thought of it for 1907 planting, I quote the following tele- : 
gram. 
“Tnerease order celery seed three hundred pounds, ship 
immediately by express. 
Altogether in California last year 760 pounds of my XX 
Strain celery was sown, and the product marketed as far east 
as Boston, 20 or more carloads per week being shipped East 
during the season, selling for prices amounting to almost a 
million dollars gross, netting the growers in some cases over 
$300 an acre. 
I hardly think you need any further evidence as to the 
superiority of my seed of this celebrated variety, and further 
comment seems superfluous. My supply of seed for 1908 is 
limited to 1,200 pounds, so would advise early orders. 
Prices of Maule’s XX Selected Strain Golden Self-Blanching Celery for 1908: 
Packet, 10 cents; half ounce, 30 cents; ounce, 50 cents; quarter pound, $1.50; pound, $5.00. 
A CALIFORNIA FIELD OF MAULE’S XX GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING ROWS ONE MILE AND A QUARTER LONG. 
