MAULE'S PRIZETAKER ONIOH. 



I Named and Introduced this Onion. Headquarters Seed can be Obtained Nowhere Else. 



To carry any vegetable as a novelty for more than a decade, Quoting my friend, Mr. Greiner, \^'ho called Prizetaker the 

 as I have" carried this one, speaks well for the vegetable. "King of Alf Onions," it excels everything else in beauty, 



I named and introduced this great onion in 1888. Nothing size and productiveness, and equals the best in cjuality, being 

 except a variety of highest and rarest merit could be thus as mild in flavor as the imported onions. 



honored in the valuable space of a great seed catalogue. People who wish to make money, says Mr. Greiner, should 



Yet the Prizetaker onion fully deserves the prominence which plant the Prizetaker; "plant none but the Prizetaker." This 

 I have annually given it, and has abundantly justified all the is the opinion of a man who has studied the subject practi- 

 predictions made for it and all the praises bestowed upon it. ; cally for many years, and who has written a book on onions 

 It is by far the handsomest, most productive, most profitable \ and onion culture. The Prizetaker is especially fitted, by the 

 and best of all the yellow globe onions. way, for what Mr. Greiner describes as "the new onion cul- 



Prizetaker is of a bright, clear straw color, and always ture." Large onions can always be raised in a single season 



grows to a uniform shape, which is a perfect globe. It has a 

 very small neck, and ripens up without stifTuess of the neck. 

 In market it never fails to attract attention on account of its 

 beauty, and is sure to bring a far better price than any other 

 onion, whether red, white or yellow. It is even more attrac- 

 tive in appearance than the large Spanish onion sold on city 

 fruit stalls, and, in fact, takes the place of that variety 



directly from the seed, avoiding the use of sets. 



The Prizetaker is gifted \\ ith strong drouth-resisting ability, 

 and I consider this one of its great merits. 



I have sold seed of this grand onion to something like one 

 hundred thousand American gardeners, and bave accumulated 

 a vast amount of favorable testimony relating to it, proving 

 that it is now accejited and recognized as the standard and 



With ordinary culture the crop of Prizetaker onions is not leading yellow globe variety. I have personally looked in 

 infrequently 700 to 800 bushels per acre, and often runs up to vain in various parts of Europe and America for an onion 

 1,000 bushels, and in weight a single specimen has reached as surpassing Prizetaker in beauty, ]m)duciiveness and general 



high as (i pounds, 2 ounces. 



INIy prediction made years ago, at the time of its introduc- 

 tion, that Prizetaker would supplant all others of its class, 

 has long since been verified. It has attracted more attention 

 and awakened widei' and more cordial enthusiasm than any 

 other onion ever introduced to the American public. It has 



merit, and believe there is nothing better in the whole world. 

 It is unexcelled for either home use or as a money maker. 



For many years my supply of seed of this famous onion has 

 been exhausted early in the season, to the disajipointment of 

 many intending buyers. I have a gixni stock for lS9i>, fullv 

 hO per cent, of all the true Prizetaker in America, but ft 



proven itself a great acquisition to gardeners and farmers, and is possible that it will be insutlicient to moot all domandf 

 is today admitted to be the largest, finest flavored and most Please remember if you want Original Headquarters Seed of 

 superior yellow globe onion under cultivation. Prizetaker Onion, you must come to uie for it. 



Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 20 cents; 'A pound, 50 cents; pound, $1.73; 10 pounds, by express, $15.00. 



