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38—Vegetable Seeds 
CULTURE.—Celery seed is slow to germin- 
ate, and ample time must be given. Sow 
: - ° thinly; cover lightly. Keep constantly 
moist. Count on about 7,500 plants per ounce of seed, or 14 pound per 
acre. When the seedling plants are 8 inches high they should be 
clipped at the top, to favor stocky growth, or else transplanted. Celery 
is mostly grown under flat culture, without trenches, in rows 8 to 5 feet 
apart. For home use celery is often grown in double rows, 10 inches 
apart, without trenching, and banked for winter storage just where it 
grows, without lifting. ea 

Maule’s XX Selected Strain 
Golden 
Self-Blanching 
Gelery. 
It may be an interesting statement to my friends and cus- 
tomers that this page of my catalogue for the last 4 years has is 
brought in more dollars than any other page in this book, but 
this is readily explained. 
almost all the largest and best celery growers are depending 
on me for their supply of this seed. 
No better illustration of the superior quality of my XX 
Golden Self-Blanching ean be found than the fact that 6 
years ago, my total sales of the seed of Maule’s XX Selected 
Strain Golden Self-Blanching Celery in the State of Cali- 
ifornia amounted to less than 50 pounds; for the last 3 jf 
years I have supplied seed to all the largest concerns in that 
State shipping celery to the Eastern markets. 
as these should not fail to impress every grower who has not 
already tried my selected strain, with its superior qualities. 
Golden Self-Blanching Celery is undoubtedly the most popu- 
lar and profitable celery in cultivation today. It is always 
in demand where good celery is appreciated. It gives the 
largest return for the labor. In quality it ranks with the 
highest. It is equally in favor with the amateur and mar- 
ket gardeners. It is dwarf to half dwarf, growing about 18 to 
20 inches in height, wonderfully stocky, very heavy, per- 
fectly solid, of delicate flavor and a good keeper. Added to 
these points is its great distinctive feature of being almost 
literally self-blanching. During the season last year from 20 
to 30 carloads per day of this celery grown from my XX 
Selected Strain seed were shipped from California to the East- 
ern markets, even as fur east as Boston. In the Philadelphia, 
Chicago and New York markets it commands the very highest 
prices, and my customers, particularly those in the San 
Joaquin River section realized more than $300 per acre in net 
profit on every acre they planted. 
I now take up the serious side of the situation, and that is | 
this: My crop of XX Selected Golden Self-Blanching Celery 
seed the past year was the shortest I have ever known, only a 
little over 13 per cent. of what I expected. Every ounce of 
seed I sell is French grown, and in France is where the failure | 
occurred. I cannot use American grown, particularly Califor- 
nia grown seed at any price; my trade won’t stand for it, and I 
From the Atlantic to the Pacific § 
Such facts | 

















ah MANE 
MAULE’S XX SELECTED STRAIN GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING CELERY. 
| cannot blame them, as I consider American grown seed of this 
| variety absolutely worthless. I have in store at this writing 
1683 pounds of this French grown seed which I have supplied 
my customers with for so many years; I do not know where I 
could get another grain of seed of equal quality for love or 
money, and this must do my trade for this year. I have been 
very frank and explained the situation fully, at the same time 
I am willing to sell this seed at only $2.00 per pound advance 
on last year’s prices as long as my supply holds out. I feel, 
however, I must stand by and protect my large customers who 
‘have stood by me year after year, so write at once for special 
prices on ten pounds or more. At even $7.00 per pound 1 
may not have enough to go round. 
Prices of Maule’s XX Selected Strain Golden Self-Blanching Celery for 1910: 


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Packet, 15 cents; half ounce, 40 cents; ounce, 75 cents; quarter pound, $2.00; pound, $7.00; postpaid. 
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A CALIFORNIA FIELD OF MAULE’S XX SELECTED STRAIN GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING CELERY. 


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