exits EXPECTED a good year in 1890, believing that 1889 was near bottom, and I have to 
Ve thank my friends most gratefully for a year whose prosperity has never been surpassed 
but once in my business career. For 1891 I expect to excel all previous records, and 
with this end in view hand you herewith the best seed catalogue I have ever published, 
filled to the very brim with good things you and your neighbors need. When it is con- 
oe however, that this catalogue is eagerly looked for the first of every year in more than 175, 
ooo homes, to deserve the esteem and favor of such an intelligent clientage it ought to bea good one. 
Maule’s seeds have now been supplied direct to customers at 33,631 post-offices in these 
United States. Further comment is scarcely necessary. I know of no other house, whether in 
the seed or any other line of business, that can make such a statement. 
Now, it stands to reason that this immense business—which has been built up in little more 
than a dozen years—could only have been obtained in one way, namely: through the superior 
excellence of Maule’s seeds. Every reader of this book knows it would be impossible to build up 
such a trade as this catalogue represents with poor seeds as a foundation. 
All the signs point to a more active demand for everything relating to plant life than for 
years, and with this end in view I have made preparations for a large trade the coming spring ; 
I have a confession to make to 
la] BO ~) Gu m Some of my customers, and might 
as well make it right here and 
be through with it. Last year, owing to an unusual demand, I run \ I. SAFE ARRIVAL.—I guarantee that all goods sold 
out of my own stock of Stratagem Peas, and in the pressure of the i by me shall reach my customers in good order. 
busy season I procured ten bushels from what I considered the most CY | y Il. MONEY INSURED.—I guarantee to hold myselt : 
reliable source. They were distributed in small quantities to over SS A responsible for the safe arrival of all remittances sent 
200 of my customers. On making three separate tests of peas from é a me by post-office order, draft, check or registered letter 
this lot last summer I discovered, much to my chagrin, that only 7 ais Ill. FREE BY MAIL.—I guarantee to deliver 
half of them grew. Now, it speaks a good word for Maule’s seeds, a ig -= : = 
that only two customers complained. and on inquiry I found that : F <i aoe gard Sta dae bettie aera ee Ny ae dae ae 
my friends had blamed the fact of their having a poor stand to the ) IV. AS REPRESENTED._I cuarantee my seeds to b 
weather or other causes. Mistakes will sometimes occur in the best At o just as represented. If they ukove Atiiorcicaisnnt il =e 
regulated families, and Tam SOLEY: to report one here; but will, of the order free of charge : but it must be understood I do not 
course, take pleasure in refilling every one of my customers orders = SEO OES a ne fill th i 
for Stratagems, who will notify me that they had a poor stand. eee BBD e UAE LOSTe corder- 
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and am glad to be able to inform my friends that my supply of everything in this book was never 
so complete, never of better quality, nor has my organization for filling orders promptly and 
effectively ever been in better shape. Few who read this catalogue can appreciate what this last state- 
ment means, on account of the mammoth proportions of the business now annually done in Maule’s 
seeds. Nothing I can think of more pointedly shows its growth than the statement that in a 
single registered mail I have received orders, with cash enclosed, amounting to more than $2,200 ; 
or the fact that the Assistant Postmaster of Philadelphia, as long ago as 1888, informed me that | 
had received more registered letters in a single delivery than had a aaES e to any other business 
house in Philadelphia—the then second largest city in the Uni Sgiad to say that with 
my four separate and distinct departments for filling orders, a bea diayto = ute all the favors 
my friends see fit to send me in 1891 with quicker dispatch than evel nie 
To those into whose hands this book may come this year fortheffis e, vould only add that 
Maule’s seeds are recognized as the American standard of exce on y more than 175,000 of 
the most successful gardeners in these United States, who have planted them for ene who 
consider them the best they have ever sown, and to whom alone I am indebted for a most 
generous patronage, and a business success that has been unprecedented in the annals of the 
American seed trade. To my customers I give the credit of building up what is to-day the largest 
mail order seed business in America, if not in the world, and with best wishes to each and ev ery 
one of them for the coming year, I remain, 
Yours to command, _ it | 
TERMS. Cash with order, or satisfactory Philadelphia or New | 
York references. Money can be sent by post-office or express A RE if OU A | \A RKET GA RDEN ER? ? 
order, draft, or check, If you don’t remit in any of these ways, register the 
letter; you can do this at any post-office in America. For expense of forward- If you raise truck to sell, you ought to hav emy Special Price List. 
ing money, I will send seed as an equivalent. I will send C. 0. D. by express, on | It will be mailed free to Market-Gardeners ; but as it is intended only 
orders exceeding $10, if 25 per cent. of the money is remitted with the order. I for this particular trade, I cannot send it to private gardeners, even 
cannot ship C. O. D. by freight. I receive postage-stamps as cash. if they apply forit. For index of contents of this book see page 4. 
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YE At MY In 1884 I first offered RARLIEST OF ALL asthe EARLIEST PEA in 
ies ONE OF MYERS cultivation. It has proved itself to be a remarkable addition, and if you desire to have 
G@/ Spec 
peas before your neighbors, this is just the sort to plant. But extra earliness is 
not the only thing to recommend Earliest of All, for besides being earlier than any other, 
it is a wonderful bearer, producing an enormous number of fine pods, we'l filled 
with extra plump peas of the most delicious flavor. It is an even cropper, can 
almost always be cleaned off with one or two pickimgs. Market. 
gardeners will all appreciate this quality. Vines grow about two feet high, and are 
always loaded down with pods. Packet, 15c.; pint, 35c.; quart, 60c, postpaid, 
COPYRIGHTED BY WM. HENRY MAULH. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 
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