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1711 FILBERT STREET. 
The Illustrations 
business now annually done in Maule’s Seeds. 
of my Philadelphia Warehouses, given on this 
and the preceding page, show much better than 
M. HENRY MAULE, No.1711 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. A. 
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business is conducted in them be equaled by any other seed firm. 
New readers of this book must bear in mind that these stores are entirely 
occupied in a retail business. Maule’s Seeds are not sold to dealers, but every 
department herein illustrated is at all times at the call and 
service of any customer who sends an order from this book. It was 
only five yearsago that I had especially built for me,at 1711 Filbert Street, 
the finest warehouse in America, for conducting the mail order seed business. 
Tt was carefully planned and erected, from the basement to the fifth floor, with 
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had increased to such proportions as to make another warehouse necessary ; 
hence the two storesin which my business is at present conducted. In both 
stores I carry a complete line of every thing in which Ideal. If one of my 
warehouses should burn down, even in the height of the season, while I should 
of course suffer loss and inconvenience, still my customers would lose nothing, 
for my business would not be interrupted for an hour. 
The above cuts are exact representations of the exterior of my Jones and 
interior of the Filbert Street Warehouse, while that at the bottom of this page 
well illustrates Mail Order Department No. 4, which occupies the entire third floor 
ANTEED SEEDS. 
It is needless to say that Iam very proud to show 
< things just as they are. 
Frequently customers from a 
w any one of my customers through my warehouses. 
© distance happen to be stopping in Philadelphia, and while here, come tosee the | 
place from which they obtain their seeds. I am always glad to see them, and 
after showing them through my stores, all express the same opinion that 
the half had not been told, and that they had no idea there wassuch a place 
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1934 and 1936 JONES STREET. 
anything I could write the present dimensions of the | 
Two such stores can not | 
be found elsewhere in America, nor can the system under which the | 
an idea of answering every requirement of my business for many years to come. | 
A careful examination of cut on opposite page will give every one an excellent | 
idea how really complete it is—the inside fixtures alone costing more than | 
$10,000. What wasthe result? In three years’ time the demand for Maule’s Seeds | 
Filbert Street Stores; that on opposite page an excellent illustration of the | 
of the Jones Street Warehouse. These are not fancy pictures, but represent | 
in the country. As it is impossible for all my customers to go through my estab- 
| lishment in person, I will explain opposite illustration ; beginning atthe bottom. 
THE BASEMENT.—This is entirely devoted to storing seed potatoes. 
FIRST FLOOR.—To the right, will first be seen office No. 1. This is 
| devoted entirely to booking orders. For this purpose I require 37 enormous 
| ledgers, which if laid one on the top of the other, make a pile almost 8 feet high. 
| They contain 61,801 separate accounts, or one for every P. O. in the 
| country. Back of this office is the outgoing mail room ; here, almost all day long, 
haif a dozen clerks are busy placing the stamps on packages that go by mail, and 
| packing them in Uncle Sam’s mail sacks, which the post-office authorities furnish 
| me for that purpose. Back ofthis istheshipping room. Here I havea drive-way 
| right into the store into which wagons are backed, so that all my unloading and 
loading in the Filbert Street warehouse is done under cover. 
SECOND FLOOR.—To the right will be seen the office of my manager. 
Back of his office is my private office. The balance of this floor is fitted up to 
fill the larger mail-orders. Fa 
THIRD FLOOR.—To the right will be seen office No. 5; here young 
| women are kept busy addressing catalogue wrappers, and filing orders, accord- 
| ing to number, in books of 500 orders each, after they have been filled. Back 
of this, and right over my private office, is the office for opening the mail. In 
| the busy season my entire time, from 3 4. M. to 11 P. m., assisted by four or five 
trusty clerks, is taken up opening the thousands of letters brought me by every 
| mail and in dictating to a stenographer such letters as require answering. In 
the middle‘of this floor will be seen part of my storage bins for seeds in packets; 
here I have stored away millions of papers which are done up as soon as new 
seeds come to hand in the fall, and are packed here for use in the rush of business. 
| Back of this room is the Mail Order Department No. 2; here all mail-orders 
amounting to less than $2.00 are filled and this room is also used in December 
and January for mailing my catalogue. 
FOURTH FLOOR. —Is devoted to storage purposes. 
FIFTH FLOOR.—Forward part is devoted to storing onion sets and 
cleaning seeds. The rear contains Mail Order Department No. 3; in this 
department all orders amounting to more than $2.00 and less than $4.00 are filled. 
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