MAULE'S RELIABLE ONION SEED. 



Culture.— Use any good soil; preferably a rich, sandy loam, previously cultivated. Fertilize liberally with rotted manure, or with artificial 

 manures. Drill In seed to depth of H inch, at the rate 4 or 5 pouuds to acre for large onions; 60 to 80 pounds per acre for selg. (jr use sets at the 

 rate of 6 to 10 bushels per acre. Or start onion seed in frames, under glass, and transplant to open ground, 3 inches apart in the rov7. This excel- 

 lent plan was first generally practiced with my celebrated Prizetaker onion, and is often referred to as the "new onion culture." Onions are quite 

 hardy and may be planted earlv. Frequent shallow culture is best, and the same soil may be used year after year, without rotation of crops, if 

 well ferlilized'aunuallv. Winter storage demands dryness, coolness, good ventilation, and freedom from sudden changes. Spread 18 inches of 

 straw on barn or garret floor, then 6 to 10 inches of onions, then 2 feet of straw; or keep on shelves in a dry, cool cellar, where windows can be 

 closed in severe weather. Set larse onious in open ground iu September for early spring bunching. Protect with litter during winter. 



MAULE'S LARGE RED WETHERSFIELD. 



This has been one of my leading specialties for more than 20 years. The 

 shape and size of my strain of this great standard onion are shown in the 

 engraving, from a photoeraph. In color the skin is deep, purplish red. The 

 flesh Is white, moderately grained, and of a good, strong character. The 

 flavor, when cooked, is highly rellshable. One of my patrons grew 60,905 

 pounds of ilaule's Large Red Wethersfield onions on a single acre of ground, 

 some years ago, in competition for a prize of ?2.50. This is at the rate of 1,200 

 or 1,300 bushels per acre, the legal weight of a bushel of onions varying lu dif- 

 ferent .States from 50 to 57 pounds. Yields of 600 to 800 bushels of m\ 

 Wethersfield per acre are not rare. Onion seed value depends greatly 

 upon the way the stock is selected and cared for, and the seed which I 

 otfer is of the earliest form, grown from hand sorted bulbs and sure 

 produce large onions. .Specimens of Maule's Weth- 

 ersfield weighing one to two pounds the first year 

 from seed are not uncommon, and there is 

 a noteworthy uniformity of size, seallions 

 being unknown. This onion is a 

 magnificent keeper, and thou- 

 sands of my customers speak of it 

 every year In terms of highest 

 praise. Many strains of Wethers 

 field are off'ered the Amer- 

 ican public, but my care- 

 ful comparative tests con- 

 vince me that none are in 

 the slightest degree super- 

 ior to the one here de- 

 scribed,whose virtues have 

 become so firmly estab- 

 lished and are so widely 

 endorsed. It is a per- 

 fect red onion for home 

 and market purposes. 

 Packet, 5 CIS. ; o u n ce, 10 cts. ; 

 % lb., 30 cts.; lb., ?1.00. 



%, ACffOP of DAHVERS Y&LIPV 800flUSHUS-roTH£ ACRE 

 MAULE'S YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS. 



The choice strain of Globe Danvers onion I ofTer the public Is oi fine 

 form, as shown in the picture, with very thick bulb and small neck. 

 It always attains a good size. Choice in flavor, being rather mild, 

 and is such a market favorite as to find ready sale at prices usually 

 5 or 10 cents per bushel above all other varieties, except Prizetaker. 

 It is, in fact, the best yellow onion on the market, except Prizetaker. 

 It frequently produces 600 bushels per acre, and is capable of doing 

 even better under extra culture. It is very early and profitable, and 

 a splendid keeper. My strain of Yellow Globe Danvers has been 

 famous for the past twenty years in every onion growing district of 

 the United States, and there is nothing better of its kind to be bad, 

 except Prizetaker, as already mentioned; nor will Prizetaker ever 

 push Yellow Globe Danvers wholly out of the market. There will 

 always be a demand for the latter, and I can confidently assure the 

 public that I have the best known strain. In fact, I have only one 

 strain of Danvers, and devote my energies to the perfection of that 

 one. Have no second grade to sell as Round Danvers, Flat Danvers, 

 etc. Since I first off'ered this improved strain of Globe Danvers I 

 have supplied direct to the onion growers of America far more than 

 100,000 pounds of the seed, a record unsurpassed 

 by any other seed house. This extensive distribu- 

 tion is in itself a testimonv to the value of this 

 strain. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; % lb., 30c.; lb., Sl.OO. 



MAULE'S PRIZETAKER. 



Maule's Prizetaker is unquestionably the larg- 

 est and finest of all Yellow Globe Onions. If you 

 onoe grow it I am sure >ou will agree with me 

 that in the way of onions nothing to date can 

 equal It I!,^lr^olle who has grown my 

 headquarteis strain of Prizetaker praises 

 it, because it i*. handsome in ap- 

 pear.inte, mild in flavor, 

 very productne and al- 

 wavs sells well. 

 See '•pecialties. 

 in front of book. 



The Practical Farmer's 

 YE7IR BOOK 



is a handy encyclopedia 

 useful to every farmer and 

 gardener in our land, i^ee 

 i. second cover page. With 

 " every order amounting to 

 SI. .50, I give this book as a 

 premium absolutely Tree. 



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l^GOOD ONION SEED. 



Good onion seed is a blessing, but cheap 

 onion seed is an ahomlnation. The couutry 

 is every year flooded with impure or ancient 

 seed that is off'ered at a low price, but such seed is 

 in reality a high priced and wholly unsatisfactoi \ ar- 

 ticle. I am sure that first-class onion seed of the trop of 1898 

 cannot be purchased at lower prices than those quoted in this cata- 

 logue, and confident that no onion grower in America can really 

 do better than to send direct to headquarters, 1711 Filbert Street, 

 Philadelphia, for any variety or amount of onion seed required. 



mauLe's 

 large red 



Wethersfield. 



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