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The products of Maule’s Seeds the past season have taken countless 
prizes at hundreds of State and County I’airs; and to cap the climax 
THE GOLD MEDAL 
at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition at Seattle, Washington. 
Mr. George W. Bloomhardadt, South Bend, Washington, under date 
of November 2, 1909, writes me as follows: 
‘“‘The seeds I bought from you have proven themselves to be all 
right. as I took the Gold Medal at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacifie Exposi- 
tion for vegetables and fruits. I had on exhibition two Hundred 
Weight Pumpkins, one weighing 100 pounds, the other 104 pounds; 
Hubbard Squash weighing 27 pounds, cauliflower measuring 32 inches 
across, tomatoes, one cluster of 15, which the judge said were the 
finest ever shown; Golden Rod Carrot and parsnips too big to talk 
about. The result of my work is very gratifying to me, being a 
Pennsylvanian myself, and planting Pennsylvania grown seed out 
here in the jumping-off place in Pacific County, on the Pacific Coast, 
If you want to use the 

Maule’s Imperial Tomato. 
Maule’s Imperial is unquestionably the best purple 
(Purplish pink.) 
fruited tomato in the market to-day. Not quite as early as Maule’s 
Earliest of All, but only a few days later. The fruits are beautifully 
smooth, and in market this variety invariably commands the highest 
prices at all times and in all seasons, I first named and offered Imperial 
in 1895,and in my catalogue that year published the following letter, 
which may still prove interesting, and which I received from Mr. James 
J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., who had visited Mr. A. H. Halladay, 
Bellows Falls, Vt., the originator of Imperial, in 1884: 
“JT was at Mr. Halladay’s, Bellows Falls, Vt., and examined his crop 
of tomatoes, and can say that I never saw a handsomer crop. They 
were uniform in size, ripened well around the stem, thick meated and 
resembled the Dwarf Champion in color. As for earliness, I can tell 
only what Mr. Halladay claims for them. At the time he said they 
were fourteen days earlier than any other, he haying tried them for five 
years with all the earliest varities known. I measured several of the 
tomatoes, the result was 334 inches by 244 inches. From what I saw of 
it I think it would make an excellent shipping tomato, it being very 
firm and solid.” 

Maule’s Imperia! has proven so good that it is today planted more 
largely than ever by market gardeners in all sections of the country, 
although I am afraid that some of them do not know it under the name 
of Imperial, as thousands of pounds of this tomato have undoubtedly 
been sold under different names since it was originated by Mr. Halladay, 
of Vermont, 20 years ago, and first named and introduced by me in 1895. 
Maule’s Imperial is a sport or hybrid from the Dwarf Champion, but 
matures sooner. It is later than Maule’s Earliest of All, but of Superior 
appearance. It is as large and smooth as Matchless, and as solid as 
Turner Hybrid. 
Maule’s Imperial in color is between pink-purple and glossy crimson. 
The flavor is of the best. It ripens evenly to the stem, and is highly 
productive, the yield under field culture having reached 14% bushels of 
ripe fruit perplant. Itnotonly bearsearly but produces fruit until frost. 
Maule’s Imperial is no longer an experiment, but a recognized sort 
of established merit. It has proved its adaptability to all sections 
of the country, and is now a standard and satisfactory tomato in all 
respects. 
Packet, 10 cents: ounce, 35 cents; quarter pound, $1.00; pound, $3.50. 





