MAULE'S GENUINE SUREHEAD CABBAGE. 



ALL HEAD AND ALWAYS SURE TO HEAD. 



This will make the 23rd consecutive year during which I have boomed this greatest of great cabbages. 



MAULiE'S GENUINE SUREHEAD Pretended rivals of the cele- 

 brated Surehead cabbage may be offered to the public from time to 

 time; but I do not think any one of them is likely to outstrip Surehead 

 in the great race. The new comers finally get into their true places, and 

 usually take a back seat. 



I watch with great care all the new candidates for favor, and test 

 them at Briar Crest, and am often willing to admit that their claims 

 are partially or locally true; but I still think that Surehead for main 

 crop will do the most good for the most people, and for the 'i'ird time I 

 urge my customers to get the genuine, headquarters stock, and to he 

 satisfied with nothing else. No other cabbage in America to-day has all 

 the merits of Maule'a Genuine Surehead, nor as many merits, "possibly 

 excepting the new Lupton. {See specialties.) 



People who have never sown Maule's Surehead do not know what the 

 best cabbage is; do not know that the characteristic features of the best 

 American cnbbages can be and have been blended into a single tvpe by 

 skillful hybridizing. This was done a quarter of a century ago by an 

 expert market gardener, the result is a cabbage better than Its parents. 



The Surehead is the greatest and most profitable cabbage ever intro- 

 duced, that has, for such a long term of years, maintained so wide a 

 popularity. This is proved by my long experience with it, and by the 

 testimony of over 100,0()0 planters. In all sections of the country, reprt- 

 senting all conditions of soil, elevation, climate and cultural treatment. 

 1 can trutlifully repeat the statements made in former catalogues, tlia 



Packet, lo cents; ourfce, 20 cents; quarter pound, 60 cents; pound, $2.00 



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while no serious complaints, even Id isolated cases, have ever been 

 made against this justly celebrated and popular cabbage, thousands of 

 tongues and pens are ready to tell of Its worth. Heni'e, I say again. If 

 you want a cabbage all head and always sure to head, you will find it in 

 Maule's Genuine Surehead. Its only rival at this time, in my opinion, 

 is the celebrated Lupton, which I introduced a few years ago, and which 

 is doing well everywhere; but this admission of the great merit of Lup- 

 ton does not in the least detract froui the name and fame of Surehead. 



Maule's Surehead is a cabbage of the general type of Prize Flat l)utch 

 and Prize Drutiihead, with the same large, deep, somewhat tUitteutd 

 head, and the same high qualities; but somewhat finer in texture and 

 with less spread of leaves. It is a late variety, with head as large as 

 Flat Dutch. It is almost absolutely uniform in growth, having long ago 

 become a thoroughbred. The heads are firm and hard, and the cabbage 

 keeps well and is a splendid shipper, and is a variety certain to give 

 satisfaction for home use in Winter. I am sure that as now perfected 

 Maule's .Surehead has no superior as a commercial cabbage. 



This cabbage always justifies its name, always heads, even when 

 other kinds fail. It maybe planted somewhat closer in the field than 

 other large, late varieties; for though It forms heads of eqmil "eight, it 

 has fewer spreading outside leaves. For planting distancis I recom- 

 mend '2', feet by 8 feet as compared to 'J'.-x:; feet for other large sorts. 

 This dirtVrence <if three Inches in the row will amount to over 600 

 plnnts to the aire, which is nlniost a clear gain in favor of Surehead. 



