








56—Vegetable Seeds THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1910 

| Just under surface of soil: 1 ounce to 50 hills; 2to3 pounds toacre. A 
SKM FL Ni } GANTAL ES. light, warm soil is best, but there are varieties of melons well adapted 
; to loamy and even heavy ground, if well drained. In hoeing draw the 
CULTURE.—Plant seed in hills 4 to 6 feet apart each way, after danger | soil well up to the=plants. Fight bugs with tobacco dust, Slug Shot, . 
of frost is over. Use well rotted manure in the hills. Insert seeds | air slaked lime, land plaster or buhach. “eed 





Maule’s Select 
Rocky Ford Muskmelon. 
(Green flesh.) In this Rocky Ford Melon I offer 
my customers a strain of seed grown for me by one of 
the very. best, if not the best, growers of melons in 
Rocky Ford, Colo. The seed is saved from a field in 
which not a single melon has been sold, in other words 


























quently the Seed I offer costs me an unusually high 
price. This strain of Rocky Ford is equal to any 
small green fleshed melon now on the market, and be- 
tween ourselves while this is the best green fleshed, 
Bowman’s Gold Coin offered below is the best Salmon 
fieshed variety of this character. 
I have less than 1,000 pounds of this special strain of 
Maule’s Select Rocky Ford on hand, but as long as 
it lasts will be glad to furnish it to my customers at 
the following reasonable prices : 

: Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 15 cents; '{ pound, 40 cents; 
MAULE’S SELECT ROCKY FORD MUSKMELON. pound, $1.25; 5 pounds, $5.00, by mail, postpaid. 


The following letter was received by me last February from a seeds- Now the facts are that Maule’s Seeds have not been 
man of Anna, I1l.:— a 
rex 
“We are in receipt of yours of the 2-1 stating,that you understand we sold to dealers to sell again ata profit for more than 20 
claim to be handling your seeds and have been doing so for years; in| years; but if a dealer wishes to purchase Maule’s Seeds to ac- 
reply to same we beg to state there is certainly a misunderstanding in commodate his customers, he ean of course do so, at our regu- 
some way. The fact is this: we have been selling seeds for years, and a i 
have always tried to transact our business in a perfectly honest man- lar catalogue price; but the customer could send and get the 
ner and have succeeded by so doing; now with regard to selling your | seeds direct from us as cheap as his dealer can obtain them. 
seeds, ifa customer should come in to-day and ask for your seeds, we i 
should certainly furnish them to him and not only yours, but the same Then again I have several hundred customers on my books 
circumstance would apply to any seed dealer in the U.S. There has who are regular dealers in seeds of other brands, but for their 
hardly been ayear in several but what we have sold some of your 5 ¥ z 
seeds; now do not think for asecond your seeds better than some of | OWN planting send to me for their supply of seeds for their 
your competitors, for we do not. However we have more respect for gardens every year. All of these dealers would be glad to sell. 
our customers, also for our competitors than tell them we do not oe sripica' sy B 
believe your seeds are as good as some others. We first try to sell our Maule’s Seeds instead of the others they are handling, but 
customers the seeds we have in stock, explaining to them the quality, | naturally cannot afford to handle anything on which there is 
ete., then if they insist on some others we simply tell them we will get , : : : FOUTELO IT CIIDTStorcelll 
them for them and do. We have seen letters from you to gardeners no profit. So that if any dealer in your to emp : se 
stating your seeds are not sold to dealers, and some ofthe best cus-| you Maule’s Seeds, be very careful, for I assure you he is pay- 
tomers we have were made by such erroneous statements, as we have | ing me the same price as you would have to pay, and there 
sent and got your seeds, with your tags and seals on the sacks, pack- ¥ ; : x 
ages, Paine é : 2 / would be no profit to a dealer in doing this. 


BOWMAN’S NEW GOLD COIN MUSKMELON. 

(Salmon flesh.) Gold Coin first offered in 1906; 
was first called to my attention by Mr. T. Greiner, 
the Garden Editor of The Practical Farmer, a weekly 
agricultural journal, that I really think has done 
more for the benefit of American horticulture and 
agriculture than any other publication in this 
country. Mr. Bowman first discovered this melon 
nipe years ago, ina patch of Emerald Gem, on his 
grounds in Niagara County, New York. It is sup- 
posed to be across between that variety and Anne 
Arundel or Acme. Careful selection of seed has / 
brought it to its present perfection. The following 
is Mr. Bowman’s description of it: “My melon is ; 
earlier than the Paul Rose by 10 days. Itis two or | 
three times as large, and a great deal more netted. | 
of lighter skin, wider ribbed, of deeper flesh and 
better quality. It also yields twice as many bushels j¢¥ 
to the acre. The specimens run from round to ob- 
long, often both on the same vine, some of the speci- 
mens weighing 6 to 7 pounds. Paul Rose, Miller’s 
Cream, or any other melon I ever saw, is not to be 
compared with it in quality or general value.” 
In Gold Coin I consider I have found what we have 
all along been looking for, a melon equal to the 
Emerald Gem in quality, and a better shipper. 
Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; ly pound, 
50 cents; pound, $1.75. 




only the best and choicest melons have been retained: 
for seed. These melons if shipped to the Eastern mar- 
i kets would have brought the highest prices, conse- . 




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