My COLORED PLATE SPECIALTIES No. 2. 
MAULE’S EARLIEST SCARLET RADISH.— Nothing in my whole 
catalogue is more worthy to be pictured in colors than this the Earliest of all 
Turnip Radishes, and if you are at all anxious to have Radishes four or five 
days to a week earlier than any of your neighbors, Maule’s Earliest is what you 
should sow. Its crisp, brittle flavor, as well as its remarkably quick growth, 
alike reeommend it. Color of skin a rich scarlet, while the flesh is a pure white ; 
of mild flavor, always remarkably crisp and tender. Has a very small short top, 
and is equally valuable for forcing or open ground ; in favorable weather matur- 
ing in from 20 to 25 days from the sowing of the seed. Not oue of my customers 
should fail to sow this Earliest of All Radishes in 1891. Packet, 10 cents; 
ounee, 15 cents ; 44 pound, 40 cts.: pound, $1.25, , 
MAULE’S EXTRA EARLY CUCUMBER.—This new Cucumber is a 
cross between Early Russian and Green Prolific. Fully as early as the former, 
while it combines all the fine pickHne qualities of the latter. Always grows 
uniformly, and wonderfully productive; seldom, if ever, produces a cucumber 
too large for pickling. That celebrated grower of cucumbers, E. L. Coy, of 
Washington Co., N. Y., writes: “It not only makes a standard commercial 
pickle, Frnt in its younger and smaller state it is a perfect gem for bottling. Its 
extreme earliness, in addition to its many other good qualities, will make it of 
great value to market-gardeners for bottling or commerce. IF YOU WANT 
the Earliest Cucumber you have ever grown you must piant 
Maule’s Extra Early. Pkt., 10 cts.; 02., 15 cts.; 14 Ib., 50 Ibs.; 1b., $1.50. 
Mr. T. Greiner, that justly-celebrated writer and authority on gardening 
and horticultural topics, in 1889 compiled the results of his notes and experience 
for many years into a voluminous and exhaustive book on the subject entitled 
«1 HOW TO MAKE THE GARDEN PAY" > 
I have undertaken the publishing and placing before 
the American public of this the best and most practical 
work ever written for the benefit of the American 
vegetable gardener. I am confident it will prove the 
stepping-stone to successful gardening for many 
thousands who are now unacquainted with this, the 
noblest calling on earth, while I know it will give 
many profitable common-sense ideas to those 
who are even now high up in the profession. 
In giving a brief summary of the work, I cannot do 
better than quote the following from Mr. Greiner’s in- 
troductory remarks in ‘“‘ How to Make the Garden Pay:” 
‘“Gardening, in the minds of average people, is a 
dreadful combination in its requirements of skill and 
unceasing drudgery. Many, especially farmers, doubt 
their ability to acquire the one without giving more 
time and thought than they can afford to devote to the 
garden, and fear the other, hence, home gardening is 
often at a discount. To disabuse the minds of the 
masses of this only too common error, to convince people in rural districts and 
in the suburbs of cities, that gardening in reality is a very strong combination 
of pleasure, health and profit, and to point out the ways and means how to 
relieve the task of all semblance of drudgery—that is one of the aims, and per- 
haps the chief one of this yolume. 
“While in the following pages I shall attempt to teach the whole of the art, 
in the aspects that have been revealed to me during long years of practice, study 
snd experiment, and propose to conform these instructions with the needs of the 
aew beginner, both in kitechen.and market gardening, I am quite certain that 
even the experienced horticulturist can find new truths and valuable suggestions 
in it, and it will pay all—novice and expert—to look these pages over carefully. 
“ Any one of the readers who thus far has remained in the old ruts, let him 
turn over a new leaf and try the newer ways that I point out; for gardening, like 
lite, is what you yourself make of it—a paradise of pleasure or a veritable sheol 
of drudgery. You haye the decision in your own hands. You may leisurely 
accompany your visitors through the well-kept grounds that are beaming with 
thrifty, sparkling vegetation, as your own countenance is beaming with pleas- 
are and satisfaction, and that is as free from weeds as your face is free from ¢are ; 
or you may crawl through the beds on hands and knees, piling up stacks of 
weeds, with a face sour and distorted in discontent and in hatred of yourself 
and the life you are leading. My instructions, if faithfully followed, willinsure 
you the former conditions and save you from the curse of the latter.” 
J. J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, Mass.: ‘f Accept my thanks for ‘How to Make 
the Gare Ase I shall certainly read it with great interest, and no doubt with 
equal profit. 
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-of your new book ‘ How to Make the Garden Pay’. It reads well and practical. ” 
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We think you have condensed the matter, and consider it a very valuable book.” 
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just wanting it, and were hoping to get it before gardening time ; now we hope, with 
its advice, to make it pay. Again accept our thanks.” 
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very readable work on the subjects which it. treats, and introduced many new 
features of how to handle an old subject. ” 
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ever people have got along without it.” 
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| CHAPTER I. HOME GARDENING.—Gardening for Pleasure, Health, Profit 
YOSEMITE WAX BEAN.—The Yosemite Valley in California is known 
the country over as one of the wonders of the world. The Yosemite Mammoth 
Wax Bean was named after the valley om this account, for it is certainly one 
of the wonders of the Bean family. Noother dwarf Bush Bean can any- a 
where near approach it if size, the pods being more often 8 to 9 inches long 5 
than 5 to 6 inches, and as thick as a man’s finger. It is really a distinct new @ 
type of the dwarf wax sorts, that in the near future may lead to many import- 1 ; 
ant improvements in this very popular vegetable. The pods are nearly all solid | 
meat, the seeds being very small when the beans are fit tor use. The pods area 4 
rich golden yellow color, and are absolutely stringless, always cooking tender 
and delicious. It is enormously prolific, and is unquestionably one of the noyel- 
ties of the year that no one should neglect to include in their order, 
particularly if you wish to show your neighbors pods of a bush 
bean twice as lomg and thick as they ever dreamed of. Packet, 
15 cents ; pint, 40 cents; quart, 75 cents, postpaid. 
PEACH TOMATO.—This the greatest novelty in Tomatoesis sure to attract 
attention and the most favorable comment, whether growing in the garden, 
served on the table either raw or preserved, or on the exhibition plate. If you 
want to surprise yourself as well as your friends and neighbors, include a packet 
of Peach Tomato in your order. It is almost identical with some forms 
of peaches, both in shape and color. The fruit is produced in clusters, is 
very solid, with red interior, with red, pinkish and green blush outside. Vines 
compact in habit and very productive. For preserying Peach Tomato has no 
superior. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 40 cents. 
HOW TO MAKE THE GARBEN PAY” 
Contains almost one hundred thousand words, is finely printed 
in large readable type, is handsomely bound, copiously illustrated 
at great expense, with almost 200 practical illustrations, and is, in 
all respects, both as to the matter it contains and the manner in 
which it has been printed, bound and published, superior to any 
work of its kind ever issued. 
___It is not only a common-sense helper for every gardener, large or small, but 
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PRICE, $2.00 POSTPAID TO ANY ADDRESS. 
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and Morality. 
CHAPTER II. MARKET GARDENING AND TRUCK FARMING.—Garden- 
ing for profit only. 
CHAPTER Il. FARMER’S KITCHEN GARDEN.—Selection of locality and 
arrangement of beds. 
CHAPTER IV. REQUIREMENTS OF SUCCESS IN MARKET GARDENING. 
—Selection of soil and location. . 
CHAPTER V. HINTS IN MARKET'NG.—Secrets of success exposed. 
CHAPTER VI._ MANURES FOR THE GARDEN.—I, Stable manure and how 
to manage it. 
CHAPTER VII. MANURES FOR THE GARDEN.—II. Commercial Fertil- 
izers, their value and uses, » 
CHAPTER VIII. MANURES FOR THE GARDEN,—III. Nitrates, wood-ashes, 
and other specific fertilizers. 
Cees DD GARDEN IMPLEMENTS AND HOW TO USE THEM. 
ER X. COLD FRAMES.—Their construction and use. 
CHAPTER XI. MANURE HOT BEDS.—Their construction and use. 
CH ER XII. FIRE HOT BEDS AND THEIR CONSTRUCTION. 
CHAPTER XIII, COLD FORCING HOUSES.—How to build and manage. 
CHAPTER XIV. HOT FORCING HOUSES.—Simple, sensible structures, 
successfully managed ; cost, construction, etc. 
CHAPTER XV. EARLY PLANTS FOR THE HOME GARDEN.—Various 
means and devices for everybody. 
CHAPTER XVI. DRAINAGE.—Where needed and how done, 
CHAPTER XVII. IRRIGATION.—Surface soaking, and Sub-Earth Flooding. 
CHAPTER XVIII. INSECTS AND OTHER FOES.—Their ways of sowing 
mischief, and how to keep them in check. 
OE IX. FUNGUS DISEASES OF PLANTS.—How to prevent and 
em. 
TER XX. SEEDS AND SEED SOWING.—By machine and by hand. 
x NOVELTIES, AND WHY WE TEST THEM. 
CHAPTER XXII. SYSTEM AND ROTATION OF CKOPPING, 
CHAPTER XXIIT. WEEDS, AND HOW TO MANAGE THEM. 
A THINNING AND TRANSPLANTING. 
PROTECTION AGAINST DROUTH AND FROST. 
HIRED HELP.—Employment and treatment of labor. 
CHAPTER XXVIII. MONTHLY MEMORANDA.—A Chronological Summary 
of the year’s work, ‘ . 
CHAPT 
ER XXVIII. CULTURAL DIRECTIONS. How the various crops 
of our gardens are grown most easily and profitably. 
CHAPTER XXVI. 
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