WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Vegetable Seeds—41 
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Maule’s Ideal Early Corn 



Do you want delicious corn on your table ih 
the 4th of July? Then this is what you need. 
This is what Mr. Ball the originator has to say about it: 
“About eight years ago I received a small packet of early 
sweet corn from a friend, which proved to be in the same 
class as the Earliest of All sugar corns, considerably larger, 
and best of all contained a sweetness equal to most of our 
best true sugar varieties. 
“As soon as the ear began to show the flower, I selected 
the most promising stalks and cut out those remaining. 
These selected stalks were carefully watched as they devel- 
oped, and by a careful system of carrying the pollen of plants 
showing different individual qualities, from one stalk to 
another, thus combining size, shape and earliness of ear, I 
succeeded in obtaining wonderful results, besides imparting | 
vitality to the seed that is astonishing. It has the power of 
germination under conditions when all others have failed, and 
can safely be planted much earlier than any true sugar corn 
on account of its extreme hardiness. 
“J have produced in this new sweet corn a variety which 
stands alone, as a money maker. It is as large as Stowell’s| 
Eyergreen.’ The fodder will average 6 feet ;-no small item 
to a farmer; and as a proof of its quality and sweetness, I had | 
a continuous call for ‘Ideal’ from the wealthiest and most 
fashionable residents of the surrounding suburban towns. | 
In earliness, anyone growing this corn will have the crop 
marketed and the money in his pocket before any of the 
early sugar corns are ready. 
“This season sugar corn had been 
a glut on the market, selling as low 
as 25 cents per hundred, but by 
planting Ideal, I was enabled to 
produce from less than one acre 
sixty hundred ears, which sold at | 
wholesale at $1.50 per hundred, be- | 
sides selecting nearly thirty bushels 
for seed. It adapts itself to any 
kind of soil, either sand or heavy 
clay. It will pay handsomely for 
=, every pound of manure given it. | 
“It should be planted not closer 
, than 8 feet each way, if soil is very | 
4 rich; 3x3} would be better. Do 
4, not let the ears get over ripe. Make 
4small cuts about 3 inches from end | 
X of ear with sharp knife before cut- 
ting, to ascertain if in edible condi- 
j tion, as it is somewhat deceiving 
4 until one gets accustomed to its 
) growth.” 
The illustration herewith is from 
<¢ a photograph of an average ear full 
= 8 inches long. It speaks for itself. 








































































































































Packet, 15 cts.; pint, 35 cts. quart, 
60 cts.; 2 quarts, $1.00, postpaid. By 
=/ express or freight, not prepaid, quart, 
Zz} 40 cts.; 4 quarts, $1.10; peck, $2.00. MAULE’S IDEAL EARLY CORN. 
Golden Bantam Sweet Corn. 
_ This is a new very early corn from Massachusetts. My old friend, Mr. EK. Li. Coy, says it 
impressed him as the sweetest and most tender corn he had ever tasted. It is deep yellow in color 
and very early, entirely different from the old Early Orange and much earlier. Can be planted 
Se thickly, and with me every stalk had from 2 to 8 perfect ears. The introducer says that on ccount of 
WWM the firm substance of the cured grains it can be planted earlier than any other true sweet corn. Pkt., 10 
GOLDEN BANTAM corn. Cts.; pt., 25 cts.; qt., 40 cts., postpaid. By exp. or freight, not prepaid, qt., 30 cts.; 4 qts., $1.00; pk., $1 75. 















