New Davis Kidney Wax Bean. 
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The greatest addition to our list of Wax Beans in many years, and is bound to be the 
The Bean for the Market Gardener. 
It leads all in Earliness, Enormous pro- 
ductiveness, handsome appearance and desirable market qualities. 
most popular variety in cultivation. 
ally recommended to Canners. 
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Especi- 
LAst year in introducing this greatest of all Wax Beans I remarked 
that it was with special pride that I called the attention of my custo- 
mers to this remarkable bean, which impressed me so favorably that I 
paid the originator a Sum running into the thousands of dollars in order 
to have my name identified with 
CQO DO 09000 OO 8 iis introduction. All will admit 
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$150 Oct. 15, ’96. 
this was a large amount to give for 
a Single variety; but at the same 
time I was enabled to offer my 
I will pay the above friends a bean that for earliness, 
amount in three awards. productiveness, desirable shape, 
$75 to the customer who § superior quality and handsome 
sends me the best six pods @ Waxy white color stands without 
of New Davis Kidney Wax 
Beans. $50 for the mext 
best six pods, and $25 for 
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acompetitor. The Davis Kidney 
Wax is undoubtedly the greatest 
bean ever offered. It is new and 
the next best six. To be sent distinct in the fact that the seed is 
to me on or before October @ pure white, with absolutely no eye 
15, 996, grown from seed whatever, and of true kidney 
purchased of me this year. shape; this is one chief qualia Ca: 
tion that alone should recommen 
CVO HOP DVODWOOS it to canners, as well as make it 
desirable for use as a shelled bean. The plant is vigorous, and of com- 
pact, upright growth. The pods are long, straight, and of a handsome, 
PACKET, 15 CENTS; PINT, 
Maule’s New [mperial Tomato. 
The peer of every known variety, early or late, embracing in itself earliness, form, solidity and every desirable quality 
that goes to make a perfect Tomato. Not quite as early as Maule’s Earliest; but as large and 
smooth as Ignotum or Matchless, and as solid as Turner Hybrid. 
So many good qualities never before embraced in a 
single variety. ‘The best Tomato for the South, the best 
for the North, none better for the East or West. 
Every market or private gardener will surely make a tremen- 
dous mistake if they do not include Maule’s New Imperial Tomato 
in their order this season. My attention was called to this variety 
for some time previous to my introducing it last year, samples having 
been sent out to seedsmen around the country generally for trial on the 
various trial grounds. From the very first it was recognized as a great 
improvement, and admitted by many to be decidedly the best early 
they had ever seen. Not only myself, but every one who tried it was es- 
pecially impressed with the superior merits of the New Imperial so 
much, that I finally made arrangements at a tremendous price for the 
purchase of every seed in the originator’s (Mr. Halladay) possession. In 
describing it I cannot do better than quote from a letter received from 
Mr. A. A. Halladay, Bellows Falls, Vermont, dated Oct. Ist, 1894. 
“In the season of 1889 I found among my Dwarf Champion Tomato 
plants, (The seed for which I saved myself) one plant that was entirely 
distinct from that variety. I keptit separate from the others, and was 
surprised to find perfectly ripe fruit on this plant several days before 
the ripe specimens appeared on the Champions or Early Ruby plants 
that were planted on the same day. The fruit on this new plant seemed 
entirely different and far superior to any I had previously seen. It 
being perfectly smooth ripened evenly to the stem, and in color between 
the Champion and Beauty. It was also the most productive Tomato I 
had ever seen. I saved the seed from one tomato only that season, and 
have since by careful selections of the stock seed improved it each sea-’ 
son, until to-day I claim the New Imperial Tomato is the earliest, hand- 
somest, smoothest, most solid and most productive tomato in the 
world. In my trials of all the leading varieties so-called best and earli- 
est, this new tomato has always come out ahead from 10 to 22 days in 
ripening. I claim and believe that this is the earliest perfectly smooth 
tomato in cultivation, and that it will produce more and better fruit 
than any variety known. It not only produces the earliest, but it will 
hold out all through the season until killed by frost. It also proves to 
be the longest keeper. My field of these tomatoes has been the wonder 
of all who have seen it, and with good reason, for I believe that there 
never was so many tomatoes ever grown before on the same amount of 
ground. Remember, I am sending you every seed of this new tomato 
that is for sale in the world, and I believe that the New Imperial Toma- 
to will prove to be the most valuable tomato to the public that has ever 
been introduced.”’ 
"THE competition for the prize I offered the past season for the best six specimens of this Tomato sent to me, was remarkably large and interest- 
ing and certainly demonstrated the enthusiasm my customers have for this grand new sort. 
worth special mention in addition to its many other exceedingly good qualities. ( 
as peas in a pod, and for this very reason it was necessary for me to divide the prize I offered, there being no perceptible advantage in the speci- 
(See page 14.) In conclusion I would say, I conscientiously believe that in the New Imperial 
Tomato Iam giving my friends the opportunity of securing seed of the most perfect tomato known to-day, embracing more good qualities than 
any other sort, and in size, shape and handsome appearance surpassing anything heretofore put on the market. 
PACKET, 15 CENTS; HALF OUNCE, 60 CENTS; OUNCE, $1.00; QUARTER POUND, $2.50. 
mens submitted by the three leading competitors. 
The two most popular and profitable 
clear, waxy white color, often growing to a length of seven or eight 
inches. They should be picked when quite young, in which stage of 
growth they are absolutely the finest flavored wax bean known to-day; 
but if allowed to remain on the plant too long; they are naturally liable 
to become stringy. Absolutely rust-proof, being held well up from the 
ground, standing considerably higher than the Golden Wax. Always 
full of plump beans, it being impossible to find a windy pod. In point 
of productiveness it leads all others, the vines are positively one mass 
of pods, and a field at a distance shows more yellow in color from the 
pods than it does green from the leaves. Many of our large cropping 
sorts produce a great deal of waste or second quality pods, but the Davis 
Kidney Wax makes little or no waste at all, and will grow a third more 
bushels of merchantable pods to the acre than any variety of wax 
beans in cultivation. There is no bean I can so highly recommend, 
particularly to market gardeners and canners; while for the home gar- 
den it is equally as desirable. One of its special features of superiority 
over other sorts is its extreme hardiness and shipping qualities. Can- 
ners even now, are using the old White Wax, which is one of the most 
unprofitable sorts to grow, but they use it Simply on account of the col- 
or of its seed. The Davis Kidney Wax overcomes this difficulty entirely, 
the seed being pure white and of true kidney shape, it is just the bean 
canners have long been looking for. This being only the first season 
since its introduction, the seed is still limited to a comparatively small 
quantity, and necessarily still high priced. 
65 CENTS; QUART, $1.00. 
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Mr. Halladay writes me under date of Nov. 16th, 1895. 
My field of Maule’s New Imperial Tomato, this season contained 
about 4,500 plants. Owing to the late May frosts I did not put them out 
until after June Ist; the weather at that time being extremely hot and 
dry; and I lost some plants from this cause, and more by cut worms 
and potato bugs, but replaced them. Most of the plants were on very 
ordinary land not heavily manured. I used about 200 pounds of 
Bradley’s Complete Potato Manure to the acre; and 200 pounds of nitrate 
of soda on the three acres. The plants were not trimmed or racked up, 
but received good culture. We Yn oewewuyy.rpouwuwy) 
commenced pining uD, torn a 
toes in quantities for seed, July $ 9 
150 Oct. 15, ’96. 
I will pay $150 in three 
22nd. My entire field averaging 
over 14% bushels to a plant of per- 
fectly ripe fruit; large in size and awardsitoris specimens 
fine in shape. Many people came Newall perial iat ion ages 
sent me on or before Octo= 
ber 15, ’96, grown from seed 
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long distances to see them, and @ 
all pronounced it the finest field of 
tomatoes ever seen. I have heard I 
the remark many times this sea- @ procurcd of ime seni si ycor: 
son, that it looked as though a © $75 for the best six speci= 
bushel of tomatoes had been @ ™ems- $50 for the second 
poured down around each hill. I} Pest six specimens. $25 for 
have tested only one new variety the third best six specimens. 
this season for earliness, “Bond’s 
Early Minnesota.” The Imperial CDSS VOOOVWAWGV 
was a few days ahead in ripening and the fruit more than twice as larg 
and more than twice as productive. I have kept the Imperial Toma- 
toes on the vines 60 days after they were ripe, before they commenced to 
decay. I shall ship to you by freight, Monday next, 207 pounds of very ~ 
choice seed of Maule’s New Imperial Tomato, all grown and selected 2 
by myself. I have no more seed to sell this season. I trust this will 5 
reach you in good condition, and that every seed will be sold. - 
TY also wish to supplement these two letters of Mr. Halladay’s with & 
the following from Messrs. Jas. J. H. Gregory & Sons, Marblehead, Mass.: 
“T was at Mr. Halladay’s, Bellows Falls, Vt., and examined his crop cs] 
of tomatoes, and can say that I never saw a handsomer crop. They 
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were uniform in size, ripened well around the stem, thick meated, and 
resembled the Dwarf Champion in color. As for earliness I cannot tell, 
only what Mr. Halladay claims for them. At the time he said they were 
14 days earlier than any other, he having tried them for five years with 
all the earliest varieties known. I measured several of the tomatoes; 
the result was 334 inches by 24% inches. From what I saw of it, I think 
it would makean excellent shipping tomato, being very firm and solid.” 
The uniformity in development of the fruit is 
Hundreds of specimens were sent me that looked as near alike 
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novelties of the year. One packet of each of 
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the two varieties described above and illustrated on colored plate opposite, only 25 cents, postpaid. % 
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