166—Flower Seeds THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1910 


VERBENA | COMMANDANT MARCHAND. The flowers are remarkably large, 
ei of a dark purplish red color, and are produced in great abundance. 
Tender Perennial | Elegant for massing or borders. Packet, 15 cents. 
Indispensable for bedding purposes. Flowers white, scarlet. red, 
crimson, purple, etc. Verbenas raised from seed are usually fragrant. 
To hasten bloom it is better tostart the seed indoors. The plants should 
stand about a foot apart in the open ground, and the fiowers should be | 
cut frequently. Seedling verbenas are stronger than others. 

VERBENA, COMMANDANT MARCHAND. VERBENA, HyYBRIDA MIXED. 
: ———— : HYBRIDA SCARLET. Brilliant; fine for bedding. Pkt., 10 cts. 
VERBENA, BURBANK’S MAYFLOWER. HYBRIDA WHITE. Fine for bouquets. Packet, 10 cents. 
BURBANK’S MAYFLOWER. Arbutus scented. This verbena is| H¥BRIDA MIXED. Allcolors. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 75 cts. 
of bright and pleasing shades of pink, of extraordinary size and free | 
blooming habit. Its chief claim to popularity, as developed by Mr. | 
Burbank, is its fragrance, which resembles the Trailing Arbutus or | 
Mayfiower. This fact gave it its name. It is very desirable for bou- | 
quets and decorative purposes, and is unsurpassed as a bedder. It was | 
originated by Mr. Burbank by a long continued selection from sweet 
scented sorts. The type is now quite well established. Packet. 10 cts. 
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AuRoORA BOREALIS: 
AURORA BOREALIS, A grand new extra large flowering variety 
of great merit. The flowers are an intense fiery red, produced in great 
clusters, and is recommended above all others as a bedding variety, as 
it covers the ground well and makes an effective glowing mass of neat 
foliage and scores of fine fiery red blossoms. Packet, 15 cents. | 
== a BUSH. Much like the common 
} sorts, but less procumbent. It 
makes an erect and compact bush. 
Many bright colors; height 1 foot. fi ‘ 
Mixed. Packet. 10 cents. | VeRBENA, BrRiaR Crest MAMMOTH Fancy. 
MAMMOTH SHOW. Absolute-| BRIAR CREST MAMMOTH FANCY. Unexcelled for size, beauty 
ly all the finest colored verbenas | and diversity of markings. Unsurpassed for richness of color and pro- 
ever offered in a single packet. | fusion of bloom. Some of the individual florets are nearly as large as 
Packet, 10 cents. | a silver half dollar, and all are much above average size, making 
AURICULA EYED. Various effective masses of color in the bed. As to hue, some are self colored or 
colors. Flower with large white | solid, some are striped and some are variegated or mottled. Some have 
eye. Packet, 10 cents. | eves and some have zones or rings of contrasting shades. All are bril- 
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ITALIAN STRIPED. Showy, | liant and desirable. 
striped sorts; many colors. Fine. Purple. Packet, 10 cents. White. Packet, 10 cents. 
Packet, 5 cts.: 4 eunce, 35 cts. | Pink. Packet, 10 cents. Scarlet. Packet, 10 cents. 
== - | FINEST MIXED. Embracing all sorts, including the eyed and 
Mrs. Clara Hartwick, Condersport. Pa, | Variegated verbenas. Pkt., 10 ets.; 14 oz., 40 cts.; oz., $1.50. 
—Rose bushes received in splendid condi- | 
tion. We have purchased seed from you | 
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for 25 years, and have never had a failure, g g 
either in flower or garden seeds, or plants. | B 
Frank H. Platt, New York City.—The | OU Si i O ine 
result of your collection of sweet peas has 
exceeded my expectations. Planted with | : 
three separate lots from other seedsmen, || moved to McAllen, Hidalgo Co.,in the Southern part of Texas a couple of 
yours are the only ones that make a show- || years ago, and last year, Knowing J was in the Seed business, sent me a small 
ing; and I want a dozen named varieties order amounting to about $2.00, as he thought he ought to have a garden. This 
ae Z A to put a where others did not come up. was the result: The town where he was located did not know Maule’s Seeds, 
VERBENA, AURICULA AND ITALIAN. Roderick McDonald, Eagle, Alaska.— || anqT did not have a single customer in the place, but the results he obtained 
About two weeks ago I received from aaa 2 4 in, Mr 
you by mail ten rose bushes, and it may interest you to know that after coming || Were So astonishing and everybody so Pee ais ahenapecetesr ee Ball 
Dearly 5,000 miles to within 150 miles of the Arctic Circle, they are all growing, and || Fred W. Maule wrote me in regard to it, and sta he thought he 
some have leaves almost half an inch long. The packing was moist when I |} Maule’s Seeds, although he was engaged in the lumber business. His first or- 
received them, which is remarkable at this season of the year. || der was for $2.64, this was followed with an order for 8376.89, his next order was 
E. A. Poynter, Steele, Ala.—Enclosed find an order for garden and flower seeds. |} $370.54, the next $162.41, and $141.05, making a total of $1053.53 worth of Maule’s 
Several of my neighbors, seeing the excellence of my flowers and vegetables from |} Seeds disposed of up to July 1, 1909, in a small town in Texas, which I had 
your seeds, have joined me in this order. Theirs burned out with a little dry spell, never heard of when my cousin went there to reside, and at that time had a 
wppemine ath ES es and Sdmiraton Ole SCOnn ITY eb cOD cy ng pass Ae teLOD population of a little more than one hundred. These orders entitled Mr. Maule 
as 2 eae, Nee GH an le gardens. to the second cash club prize of $150, July 1, 1909. The above facts only illus- 
W, RB. Favage, Blowing Rock, N. C.—My seeds and caladiums came duly to || trate how the demand for Maule’s Seeds is constantly growing, although it is 
hand, and I am sending you another order. I want the quarter pound of nastur- | = h 1 than $3.00 from a post office one year, and overa 
tiums for a lady who keeps a summer hotel here. She asked me to order nastur- |} 8D exception to have less than $s. Pp ob get) 
tiums for her, and when I told her I was ordering entirely from Maule this year, thousand dollars the next. 
she exclaimed: ‘‘Maule’s nasturtiums, they are the most beautiful in the world.” 









